Convict Phrases

Phrases

• A prisoner of conscience
• Arse bandit
• Beltway bandit
• Bum bandit
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Costa Del Crime
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)

• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• Nose for crime
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• One armed bandit
• Partners in crime
• Pass sentence
• Prison works
• Send down
• Smokey And The Bandit (Burt Reynolds movie)
• Take a bite out of crime

• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Prisoner's Song (Vernon Dalhart song)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The jury is out
• The perfect crime
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television
• Walk free