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
"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'm sure the newspapers have mentioned as many as twenty that are down there, and here is one, lying behind Montauk, like a snake in the grass!"
From Jack Tier by Cooper, James Fenimore
I lay there like a snake in the grass and it thrilled me!
From Bye-Ways by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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
