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snake in the grass

a treacherous person or harmful thing that is hidden or seemingly harmless

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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