A long, limbless and slithering reptile
“As soon as the noise was over, a large serpent appeared, which made us take to our heels.”
A dragon, a legendary serpentine creature
“The sons of Horus are the deities who stand among the coils of the fire-breathing serpent.”
A double-crossing person who is disloyal
“How could none of them have seen the traitorous serpent in their midst?”
A detestably untrustworthy person
“We can only assume that such machinations are the devious slitherings of an untrustworthy serpent.”
A very wicked or cruel person
Serpent eating its own tail
A deceitful or treacherous person
The supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions
“So we remained for some time and, in our gaiety of heart, never suspecting that anything was amiss, not even one day, when we saw the Serpent himself glide through our Paradise.”
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