| 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. |
| 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. |
| You try the same thing with Van Doesburg and he's as slippery as an eel. |
| 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. |
| Villains smile like sharks, thieves are nimble as cats, a pickpocket is as slippery as an eel. |
| When it is wet, this snakelike body is very slippery, long ago giving rise to the simile, slippery as an eel. |
