slippery as an eel
Example Sentences
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Memory may seem to be a guarantor of memoir's authenticity, but when pressed into service for a more general kind of food history, it can be become as slippery as an eel.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
To these complexities, Philosopher Ortega adds the paradoxical, ironical peculiarities of his own original mind�which is as slippery as an eel and as full of springy checks and balances as a cat's legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dashew 83 is as slippery as an eel below the waterline.
From Time Magazine Archive
But somehow or another Master Bob Dimsted seemed to be as slippery as an eel.
From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Dadd, Frank
That duck of a girl—no taller than a bundle of firewood, as slippery as an eel, and as nimble as a monkey—got in at the top of the oven, and opened the front door.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
