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
She's a slippery eel, deceiving no one more consistently than herself.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2024
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
"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 Sidney, Margaret
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 Balzac, Honoré de
