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
If we let Dudley quit the room he'll go down and tell them; and before we know where we are, that slippery eel will have wriggled through our fingers, as he always wriggles.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant
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
