Nalini was journeying through a forest alongside a cook, a
servant, an elf, and a minister from her mother’s palace. Her goal was to find
the magical blue gemstone that lay hidden in some corner of the forest. With
the help of various compasses and maps, they finally discovered the blue
gemstone. The gemstone lay amidst a dense clump of tall grasses. As she bent
down to pick up the gem, someone pointed a pistol on her back and demanded that
the gem be given to him. When she turned around to take a look, it was the
minister. Her mother had entrusted the minister thinking that he would help
Nalini find the gemstone. But he turned out to be a betrayer and a “snake in
the grass.” The idiom “Snake in the grass” refers to “A treacherous person. A
person who cannot be trusted. A secretly faithless friend.”
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