“the grass”

The following 3 entries include the term the grass.

snake in the grass

noun phrase

: a secretly faithless friend

let the grass grow under one's feet

idiom

: to wait before doing something or to do something slowly used in negative statements

the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence)

idiom

used to say that the things a person does not have always seem more appealing than the things he or she does have


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