slippery as an eel
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Memory may seem to be a guarantor of memoir's authenticity, but when pressed into service for a more general kind of food history, it can be become as slippery as an eel.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
To these complexities, Philosopher Ortega adds the paradoxical, ironical peculiarities of his own original mind�which is as slippery as an eel and as full of springy checks and balances as a cat's legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dashew 83 is as slippery as an eel below the waterline.
From Time Magazine Archive
That duck of a girl—no taller than a bundle of firewood, as slippery as an eel, and as nimble as a monkey—got in at the top of the oven, and opened the front door.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
It would be a risky piece of work to depend on that man's word for proof; he is as slippery as an eel.
From That Mainwaring Affair by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)
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