be (as) slippery as a snake
be (as) slippery as a snake
To be devious, scheming, and untrustworthy—and difficult to apprehend. Of course that guy took everyone's money and left town—he's as slippery as a snake. These companies are slippery as snakes when it comes to regulations. They have all sorts of elaborate means of getting around them. The notorious criminal has proven to be as slippery as a snake for police, eluding capture yet again.
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