like a snake in the grass

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We're like a snake in the grass at a Sunday picnic.

From Time Magazine Archive

I afterwards ascertained that perceiving us to be approaching her, this craft had lain like a snake in the grass, under bare poles, until she thought us sufficiently near, when she made sail in chase.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore

"But with some people, Mawruss, they're like a snake in the grass, which it bites the hand that feeds it."

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague

I lay there like a snake in the grass and it thrilled me!

From Bye-Ways by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The German submarine rolled lazily in complete isolation, waiting, like a snake in the grass, for its prey.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.