like a snake in the grass

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Everyone despises me in this school, and I’ve an enemy, a secret enemy, who is hiding like a snake in the grass.

From Etheldreda the Ready A School Story by Horrell, Charles

I feel like a snake in the grass, walking off “on them” when they all were so nice.

From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton

And thou, like a snake in the grass, hast been sticking out thy tongue behind my back.

From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner

She was a long, black ship, lying low in the water, like a snake in the grass, with a desperate wicked look, and altogether of dishonest dimensions.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore