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
"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 Sir Walter Scott
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 Honoré de Balzac
"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 Margaret Sidney
