Brewer's: Snake in the Grass

A secret enemy; an enemy concealed from sight. Rhyming slang, “a looking-glass.”

“Latet anguis in herba.”

Virgil. Eclogue iii. 93.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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