a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Definition
› someone or something that seems to be good but is actually not good at all: My grandfather was a wolf in sheep’s clothing – he looked like a sweet old man, but he was really mean.
(Definition of a wolf in sheep’s clothing from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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