John Waite

When I think of a song, I think of it as a beast. You chase these beasts around the room and try to grab them and put them in a tape machine. But they're slippery, and they run away a lot.

English Musician

Henry Rollins

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

American Musician

Michelle Dean

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

American Journalist

Ovid

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Roman Poet

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

French Athlete

Simon Sinek

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

English Author

Grace Slick

Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

Lillian Hellman

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

American Dramatist

David Olusoga

Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.

British Historian

Greg Maddux

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.

American Athlete

Use 'slippery' to describe surfaces when warning someone about potential danger.

Context Matters

'Slippery' often describes roads or paths in weather reports, especially in winter or rain.

Weather Related

'Slippery' can describe situations or tasks that aren't literally slippery but are hard to carry out.

Figurative Use

Describe people whose intentions or truthfulness are doubtful as 'slippery'.

Unreliable People

'Slippery' is used when someone avoids giving a direct answer or makes it hard to understand the truth.

Evasive Tactics

Be cautious when calling someone 'slippery' to avoid offending them or suggesting dishonesty without cause.

Avoid Defamation

The phrase 'slippery slope' suggests a chain reaction of negative events—use with care.

Slippery Slope

Use 'slippery' to describe abstract concepts that are hard to understand or define.

Metaphorical Meaning

Understand that 'slippery' can have negative connotations implying uncertainty or risk.

Connotative Learning

 I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward, shifting my weight back and forth between the small smears. But then I reached a foothold that I didn't quite trust. Two days ago, I'd have just stepped right up on it, but that would have been with a rope on. Now it felt too small and too slippery.

How I climbed a...

 it's going to be, you know, everything's going to be happening at the same time, it's going to be -- you're going to have all this information coming at you, there's going to be organs getting in the way, it's going to be slippery, it's just very important that you be able to do these

Ed Gavagan: A story...

 that moral identity is important to many of us. Now, if somebody challenges it, like they question us for a joke we tell, or maybe we say our workforce is homogenous, or a slippery business expense, we go into red-zone defensiveness a lot of the time.

How to let go of being a...

 These vary depending on the specific characteristics of the fracking site, but usually fall into three acids for clearing debris and dissolving minerals, friction-reducing compounds to create a slippery form of water known as slickwater,

How does fracking work?...

 But the true story of eel reproduction is even more difficult to imagine. And to solve this slippery mystery, scholars would have to rethink centuries of research. Today, we know the freshwater eel lifecycle has five distinct

No one can figure out...

 perfect for swiftly clamping down on slippery aquatic prey. This apex predator, as well as its ecosystem, is unparalleled in the history of life on Earth. All that's left of these fearsome predators are fossils.

The ferocious predatory...

 They can outmaneuver a shark fairly easily, especially if they're in deeper or open water spaces. To understand how sharks catch these slippery creatures, the team heads to a beach that offers a unique look

How Dolphins Evade Shark...

 So, they leave seashells near the rubbish piles to help the homeless crustaceans. The crab normally winds its body into the spiral of a shell. It's far harder to grip a straight and slippery can.

Hermit Crabs Use Litter...

 what we've got here is a highly motivated animal trying and failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's just a little too big a little too slippery a little too everything for the

Jackal vs. Ostrich Eggs...

 leave seashells near the rubbish piles to help the homeless crustaceans the crab normally want its body into the spiral of the shell it's far harder to grip a straight and slippery can

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