A plumber feeds me into pipes to clear out grime, a traitor's tongue is said to mimic my hiss, and St. Patrick allegedly banished my entire slithering family from the island of Ireland. What am I?
A snake
Plays on the plumbing tool called a 'snake', the idiom of a deceitful person as a 'snake', and the legend that St. Patrick banished snakes from Ireland.
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