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slippery as an eel
vs
slippy
slippery as an eel
adj
So slippery that it is almost impossible to hold.
Very crafty or cunning.
slippy
adj
Slippery.
How often have the words
slippery as an eel
and
slippy
occurred in a corpus of books?
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