2020 November 12, Reni Eddo-Lodge,Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Bloomsbury Publishing,→ISBN, page64:
It slips out of your hands easily, like awater-snake toy.
2010 November 1, Mike McMullen,I, Superhero!! :: We Wear Tights So You Won't Have To, Kensington Publishing Corp.,→ISBN:
Trying to pin him down on any one topic, much less a specific time and place, is like trying to hold onto aWater Snake toy—as soon as I think I have a firm grip, he comes gooshing out the other side.
2015 September 15, M. R. O'Connor,Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, St. Martin's Press,→ISBN, page221:
Each time I tried to define it and pin it down to take a closer look, it seemed to slip away from me like one of thosewater snake toys that you can never hold on to. And then one day I finally discovered the problem.
2017 November 28, Keith Leslie Johnson,Jan Svankmajer, University of Illinois Press,→ISBN:
Or to put it differently, tactility reveals the body as a single self-enclosed surface, like a Klein bottle or one of those“water snake” toys, a kid's novelty, in its own way a polymorphous sleeve or screen over which libidinous and[…]
1968, Great Britain,Statutory Instruments:
In this Order, "toywater snake” means a toy that is a flexible tube which contains water and which is made of any rubber or plastics.
2016 August 22, Michelle Tea,Black Wave, The Feminist Press at CUNY,→ISBN, page155:
She imagined a long pink tube with a winking hole at the end sliding from a body, like a grisly penis or one of thosewater-snake balloon toys kids give hand jobs to.
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