| When it is wet, this snakelike body is very slippery, long ago giving rise to the simile, slippery as an eel. |
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| However, Secret Diplomacy is as slippery as an eel and versatile in colour as a cameleon. |
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| With all due respect, Mr. O'Reilly, I would think that the Minister was as slippery as an eel on this occasion and I do not think that that is an objectionable remark. |
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| Despite all that, slippery as an eel, he triumphantly survived inside the regime. He was also increasingly rich. |
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| Villains smile like sharks, thieves are nimble as cats, a pickpocket is as slippery as an eel. |
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| Local legend here is as slippery as an eel in a leaky dinghy, but the livery sure looks that old, sticking out of the mud on pilings next to the City Island Bridge. |
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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. |
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| You try the same thing with Van Doesburg and he's as slippery as an eel. |
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