| 单词 | as slippery as an eel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas slippery as an eel c. Proverbial phrase as slippery as an eel. Cf. eel n. 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] slipperc1000 hinderc1200 slidderya1250 covert1340 unwrast1393 slyc1440 slippery1555 fetching1570 shifting1581 as slippery as an eel1601 roundabout1608 corner-creeping1610 shuffling1616 prevaricatory1645 prevaricative1657 sliverly1674 whifflinga1680 sneak-pasty1681 slid1719 evasive1725 shauchling1755 shifty1837 slab-bridged1845 sneaky1861 pussy-footed1893 sidewinding1902 slithery1902 pussyfooting1926 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [adjective] > untrustworthy trustless1554 as slippery as an eel1601 independable1802 unreliable1810 undependable1860 untrustworthy1878 wrong1908 c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (1897) 1985 Mi wit is also slipir as an eel. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. E.i Slyper as an eeles tayle is the holde of it.] 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xx. 247 All that be long and slipperie as Yeels and Congres. 1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes sig. B1v Fie vpon giddie Fortune, and her wheele, Vnconstant, and as slipperie as an Eele. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 245 You'll find her as slippery as an Eel, I'll assure you. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xvii. 209 He's as slippery as an eel, he is. He's like a cat,—as sleek, and cunning. 1914 T. Dreiser Titan xxvi. 220 I am morally certain he uses money to get what he is after as freely as a fireman uses water. He's as slippery as an eel. 1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. i. 128 He's big, but slippery as an eel. < as lemmas |
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