slippery eel

"I should call you a slippery eel," said Ben, while Polly ran around to the other side to tuck the blanket-end in again.

Pulling the dory up on the rocks they stumbled over the slippery eel-grass and approached the ill-fated craft.

An excellent angler, its skill in capture was seen to greatest advantage when it had to encounter an unusually slippery eel.

“I thought he was a man and not a slippery eel,” cried Tom Tully.