like a snake in the grass

Grand plays the tenor saxophone in a leery, elusive tone, sometimes using short, terse phrases, sometimes wriggling like a snake in the grass.

“No one’s really seeing us, almost like a snake in the grass. Our goal is to end up biting somebody at the end of the day and making them pay.”

Then that announcer offers that if James spurns Cleveland again, “I’ll stomp on him like a snake in the grass.”

Ole devil like a snake in the grass, Sunshine in my soul, He’s always in some sister’s path, Sunshine in my soul.

But there it was, like a snake in the grass!