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English Cliché: Sly as a fox
Some people are so intelligent and clever that they can get anything they want.
Most of the time, the term sly as a fox is used negatively to describe these people.
For example, there is a lot of telephone fraud these days targeting older people.
Quite often, the perpetrator calls an older person, saying something like, ‘Hey mom, it’s me, and I need some money.’
The perpetrator is as sly as a fox because, many times, they can trick the older person into sending them a lot of money.
Sly as a fox means to be as smart, clever and cunning as a fox but in a negative way.
People who are sly as a fox trick and fool other people.
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