Sentence examples for like a slippery from inspiring English sources

If you like, a slippery handful of three halved lamb's kidneys, grilled, will add style, and a dish of small, cut-up fried potatoes (remember those that were always served with the old British Rail breakfast of long ago?) may be much appreciated by serious trencher folk, but these are entirely a matter for the cook.

"This also seems like a slippery slope," Siegler continued.

Councilman Glazer told me, "It seems like a slippery slope — what would be next?

She hardly ever slides: treating the clay instead like a slippery hard court.

And Mr. Lac, a contemporary dancer based in Europe, moves like a slippery piece of silk.

"It's like a slippery slope, and they just keep sliding a little further".

A nation that projected undiluted realpolitik on the global stage would not look like such a slippery customer.

"We do not want to get sucked into a war in North Africa and we would not like to step on a slippery slope where we all are, at the end, in a war".

You can put lotion or sunscreen on if you'd like although this adds a slippery step to this routine.

Yet they also know well the new Chinese proverb: Ruling used to be like hammering a nail into wood, now it is much more like balancing on a slippery egg.

But freedom, like terror, is a slippery word.