A deceitful or treacherous person.
1No more than the bite of a harmless snake in the grass.
2But what else could you expect from that snake in the grass?
3You've crawled in between me and Nelly like a snake in the grass.
4But there was a snake in the grass there that they little suspected.
5When he stings like a snake in the grass remember the chief's words.
6You are a mean, p'ismis little black snake in the grass.
7And so crude a villain -murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass.
8Ferris is only a snake in the grass, a coward, and a cur!
9That man, Sir, was a snake in the grass-a serpent- acrocodile
10I think he is a dangerous friend;-whatI call a snake in the grass.
11He believed him to be a snake in the grass.
12He looks to me like a snake in the grass.
13He has proved to be a snake in the grass.
14They dropped the hose which, half unreeled, lay like some twisted snake in the grass.
15He couldnay insure against a snake in the grass.
16He was always the snake in the grass; he showed the villain in all the scenes.