slippery business

Although it was a slippery business, I managed to get most of the blood flowing in its proper channel.

American labour politics were complicated and deemed a 'slippery business' by Engels.

Having the two seduce each other as the play asks them to do, is like mixing oil and oil - slippery business.

But time is a slippery business to any mind, and space is always incalculably, numbingly vast.

Listening to his narrative, I was acutely aware that retroactively assigning cause is a slippery business.

A slippery business, at best.

The female's layer of subcutaneous fat made disassembly of the torso a more slippery business.

GEARING up to sell Intersleek coatings can be a slippery business.

Extra Virginity expands upon "Slippery Business," an article Mueller wrote for The New Yorker in 2007 which described the state of the Italian olive oil industry.

Walking across the 100-foot span can be a slippery business (a 400-year shuffle has a way of polishing the surface) unless you stride from one slightly raised horizontal stone stripe to the next.

Mr. Kranarong alleged a pattern of slippery business practices that included "sales" that involved no exchanges of money, unregistered gifts that evaded taxes and stock transfers to people who earned no dividends.