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a snake in the grass

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a snake in the grass
someone who pretends to be your friend while secretly doing things to harm you It's upsetting to learn that someone you once viewed as a good colleague is in fact a snake in the grass.
See also: grass, snake
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Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard It began with a snake in the grass - but ended with a snake in a substation transformer, and a power outage that affected 1,116 Eugene Water & Electric Board customers late Sunday morning.
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``Hopefully we'll be like a snake in the grass and sneak up on some people,'' he said.
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