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
"That may hardly consist with our office, my merry Leap the ladder," said Petit Andre, "we know you for a slippery eel of old."
From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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
