an eel

Examples

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Leonardo da Vinci

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. Arthur Schopenhauer

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you! Georgette Heyer

Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it. Dutch Proverb

If an eel is with fish, he shows his tail; if he is with snakes, he shows his head. Indonesian Proverb

He lords it like an eel in a tub. Dutch Proverb

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