«نَاصِحَةٌ خَدَّاعَةٌ، خَبَّاءَةٌ طَلَّاعَةٌ»
It is at once an adviser and a deceiver, sometimes concealed and sometimes emerging.
Alongside patience, tongue, mouth, and trailing hem, these oppositions make an inanimate tool sound like a living character. Personification gives it both admirable and contradictory human traits, delaying recognition while making the description memorable.