slippery eel
Example Sentences
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She's a slippery eel, deceiving no one more consistently than herself.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2024
She's a slippery eel, deceiving no one more consistently than herself.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2024
"I should call you a slippery eel," said Ben, while Polly ran around to the other side to tuck the blanket-end in again.
From Ben Pepper by Sidney, Margaret
An excellent angler, its skill in capture was seen to greatest advantage when it had to encounter an unusually slippery eel.
From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
Vautrin And see that he does not escape like that slippery eel of a Saint-Charles, that madman, who came for the purpose of breaking up our establishment—for I—but I never threaten.
From Vautrin by Balzac, Honoré de
