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蜿々長蛇

蜿蜿長蛇
えんえんちょうだ
(a line, queue) being long and serpentine
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竜頭蛇尾

りゅうとうだび
a strong beginning and a weak ending; an anticlimax
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薮蛇になる

薮蛇に成る
やぶへびになる
you'll only make work for yourself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth
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薮をつついて蛇を出す

藪をつついて蛇を出す
やぶをつついてへびをだす
to stir up trouble for oneself; to scare out a snake by poking at the brush
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長蛇

ちょうだ、ちょうじゃ
long snake; long line (of people, etc.)
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蛇紋石

じゃもんせき
serpentine
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青大将

黄頷蛇
あおだいしょう、アオダイショウ
Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
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水蛇座

みずへび座
みずへびざ
Hydrus (constellation); the Water Snake
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神蛇

しんじゃ
sacred snake
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蛇蠍

蛇蝎
だかつ
serpent (snake) and scorpion; detestation