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slippery as an eel
Idioms and Phrases
Elusive, devious, as in When it comes to talking about his investments, Jim's slippery as an eel . This simile, first recorded about 1412, alludes to the eel's skin, which has tiny scales and is quite slippery when wet.Example Sentences
But on some topics, Trump can be as slippery as an eel.
Reviewing it, Tobias Grey calls the book a “force of nature†with a narrative as “slippery as an eel and tangled like the murky, wreckage-strewn waterways of its Oxfordshire setting.â€
Its narrative is slippery as an eel and tangled like the murky, wreckage-strewn waterways of its Oxfordshire setting.
As I walked uphill, repeating Ashbery’s lines to myself, I found them as slippery as an eel, almost Heraclitean because it’s so hard to say the same line of Ashbery exactly the same way twice.
Tommy was as quick—and as slippery—as an eel.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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