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A list of phrases related to the word "criminal"...
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A
prisoner
of conscience
Accessory
after the fact
America's most wanted
Answers to the description of
Armed and dangerous
Arse
bandit
As sober as a
judge
Babyface Nelson ( Nickname of Lester Gillis )
Back the
wrong
horse
Barking up the
wrong
tree
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Beltway
bandit
Bent
double
Bent
out of shape
Billy The Kid ( Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney )
Bird dog
Born on the
wrong
side of the blanket
Born on the
wrong
side of the tracks
Bum
bandit
By hook or by
crook
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Cop killer
Costa Del
Crime
Cradle
robber
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
Evil genius
Folsom
Prison
Blues ( Johnny Cash song )
From the
wrong
side of the tracks
Gangster
rap
Get hold of the
wrong
end of the stick
Get off on the
wrong
foot
Get out of the
wrong
side of the bed
Go down the
wrong
way
Go straight
Go
wrong
Habitual offender
Hanging
judge
Harry Potter And The
Prisoner
Of Azkaban ( J. K. Rowling book )
Hell
bent
Here comes de
judge
( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Hit man
How
wrong
can you be?
I'm not a
crook
If anything can go wrong, it will
If this is
wrong
I don't want to be right
If you can't do the time, don't do the
crime
Illegal
alien
In the
wrong
It takes a
thief
to catch a
thief
It went down the
wrong
way
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for gone
wrong
)
Jack the Ripper ( Nickname of Victorian murderer )
Judge
Judy
Judge
not, that ye be not judged
Jump to the
wrong
conclusion
Known to the police
Laugh on the
wrong
side of your face
Let me not
judge
anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
Let the punishment fit the
crime
Like a
thief
in the night
Machine Gun Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
Master of disguise
Must have
accessory
My country right or
wrong
Never
judge
a book by its cover
Nose for
crime
Not that there's anything
wrong
with that ( A catchphrase from Seinfeld )
Number Six ( Pseudonym of Peter Smith The
Prisoner
( Patrick McGoohan ) )
Old lag
Old sweat
On the
wrong
foot
On the
wrong
side of the tracks
Once a thief, always a
thief
One armed
bandit
Original
Gangster
Ice T song
Outside the law
Partners in
crime
Pretty Boy Floyd ( Nickname of Charles Floyd )
Prison
works
Procrastination is the
thief
of time
Public Enemy Number One ( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Put a foot
wrong
Rich man poor man beggerman
thief
Robber
barons
Rub up the
wrong
way
Save it for the
judge
Second storey man
Set a
thief
to catch a
thief
Smokey And The
Bandit
( Burt Reynolds movie )
Son of Sam ( Nickname of David Berkowitz )
Take a bite out of
crime
Take a bite out of crime! ( National
Crime
Prevention Council advertising slogan )
Tea leaf ( Cockney rhyming slang for
thief
)
The Acid-bath Killer ( Nickname of John Haigh )
The Boston Strangler ( Nickname of Albert DeSalvo )
The Clown Killer ( Nickname of John Gacy )
The Flying Squad ( Nickname of the Specialist
Crime
Directorate, New Scotland Yard )
The Hillside Strangler ( Nickname of Alessio and Angelo )
The Hole in the Wall Gang ( Nickname of fictional western
outlaw
gang )
The Life And Times Of
Judge
Roy Bean ( Paul Newman movie )
The Moors Murderers ( Nickname of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley )
The Napoleon of
Crime
( Nickname of Professor Moriarty )
The
Outlaw
Josey Wales ( Clint Eastwood movie )
The Prisoner's Song ( Vernon Dalhart song )
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the
crime
fighting vigilante )
The
Thief
( Nickname of Sedale Threatt )
The
Thief
of Bad Gags ( Nickname of comedian Milton Berle )
The Zodiac Killer ( Nickname of Seda Heriberto )
The perfect
crime
The right place at the
wrong
time
The usual suspects
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of
crime
( Tony Blair political slogan )
Trial
and error
Trial
and tribulation
Trial
by television
Voter
fraud
War criminal ( someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention )
What's
wrong
with this picture?
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him
Wrong
)
Wrong
Way Corrigan ( Nickname of Douglas Corrigan )
Wrong
side of the blanket
Wrong
side of the tracks
Wrong, with a capital R
You be the
judge