🐾 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.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
Hard to catch, control, or get a clear answer from.