Pirate Phrases

Phrases

• Arse bandit
• Beltway bandit
• Bum bandit
• Clap him in irons
• It takes a thief to catch a thief
• It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
• Like a thief in the night
• Once a thief, always a thief
• One armed bandit
• Pieces of eight
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Reverse engineering
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Shiver me timbers
• Smokey And The Bandit (Burt Reynolds movie)
• Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
• The Thief (Nickname of Sedale Threatt)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
• The station of the stars (Radio Luxembourg advertising slogan)
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Walk the plank
• X marks the spot
• Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
• Yo ho ho me hearties