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slippery as an eel



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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.
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But on some topics, Trump can be as slippery as an eel.

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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€

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Its narrative is slippery as an eel and tangled like the murky, wreckage-strewn waterways of its Oxfordshire setting.

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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.

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Tommy was as quick—and as slippery—as an eel.

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