snake in the grass

1. 1.

   a deceitful or treacherous person

   Synonymssnake

   Broaderbad person

Questions about snake in the grass

What does snake in the grass mean?

snake in the grass means "a deceitful or treacherous person".

What is another word for snake in the grass?

Close synonyms include snake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is snake in the grass a common word?

snake in the grass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.