snake-out-of

Updated: May 5, 2025

"It is a snake-out-of the grass, rather, Strand," observed the captain, for he could speak to whom he pleased, without presumption or degradation. "Had she stayed in port, now, she would have been in the grass, and we might have scotched her."

James Fenimore Cooper - The Wing-and-Wing: Le Feu-Follet