🦊 Fox
"Sly as a fox"
Meaning
Very clever, especially in a tricky way.
About the fox
Foxes are cast as clever and elusive in folklore, which is why their idioms describe cunning or slyness.
Example sentence
My little cousin is sly as a fox; he hides vegetables under the rice.
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Which idiom means...
Very clever, especially in a tricky way.