Fraud Phrases

Phrases

• A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines book)
• Bad paper
• By hook or by crook
• Cheat sheet
• Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat (proverbial saying)
• Con artist
• Cook the books
• Costa Del Crime
• Crash for cash
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Criminal stupidity
• Dead ringer
• Does the trick
• Every trick in the book
• Fake it till you make it
• Fake the funk
• Flash for cash
• Funny money
• I'm not a crook
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• Insider trading
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Lipstick on a pig
• Love cheat
• Never misses a trick
• Nose for crime
• One trick pony
• Partners in crime
• Pull a sickie
• Scam artist
• Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
• Slippery customer
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Indian rope trick
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The perfect crime
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trick of the light
• Trick or treat
• Turn a trick
• Two faced
• Two-faced
• Under the counter
• Voter fraud
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• Wide boy
• You Can't Con An Honest John (Mike Skinner - The Streets song)
• You can't cheat an honest man