slippery as an eel
So slippery that it is almost impossible to hold.
eel
/iːl/
noun 5verb 2name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
fast, giant, last, little, oldest, right, slippery
VERB + EEL
caught, fish, holding, like, likes, teeming
EEL + NOUN
loch, ness, water
PREP.
from, in, with
ADV.
always
Definitions
noun
1
Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.
2
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
3
Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:
4
Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:
5
Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:
verb
1
To fish for eels.
2
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
name
1
A township in Cass County, Indiana, United States, probably named after the Eel River.
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Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and
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That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.
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His expression when incredulous. "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel.
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Holding an eel too fast is the way to let her escape.
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The politician is as slippery as an eel!
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The eel I caught last week is still alive.
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