🐾 Eel

"As slippery as an eel"

Meaning

Hard to catch, control, or get a clear answer from.

About the eel

Eels are notoriously hard to grip, which is the basis for idioms about evasiveness.

Example sentence

That child is as slippery as an eel when bath time comes.

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Which idiom means...

Hard to catch, control, or get a clear answer from.