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A head for business and a body for
sin
Add insult to
injury
As miserable as
sin
As ugly as
sin
Back the wrong horse
Bang out of order
Barking up the wrong tree
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Bear
false
witness
Bill And Ted's
Bogus
Journey ( Keanu Reeves movie )
Blood
injury
Born on the wrong side of the blanket
Born on the wrong side of the tracks
By no stretch of the imagination
Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The
Wicked
Wedgie Woman ( Dav Pilkey book )
Cardinal
sin
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
Criminal
stupidity
Do yourself an
injury
Does the
trick
Don't mention the war ( A catchphrase from
Faulty
Towers )
Every
trick
in the book
Evil
Under The Sun ( Agatha Christie book )
Evil
genius
Evil
intent
Evil
twin
Fake
it till you make it
Fake
the funk
False
alarm
False
dawn
False
friends
False
jeopardy ( plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a
false
alarm )
False
memory syndrome
False
modesty
False
pretences
False
prophet
Faulty
Towers ( BBC comedy television series )
Flub the dub
From the sublime to the
ridiculous
From the wrong side of the tracks
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 wrong
He's from Barcelona ( A catchphrase from
Faulty
Towers )
Heap
abuse
on
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no
evil
How wrong can you be?
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
Infamy
Infamy! They've all got it in for me! ( Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo )
It went down the wrong way
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong )
Jump to the wrong conclusion
Labour under a misapprehension
Laugh on the wrong side of your face
Let the punishment fit the
crime
Living in
sin
Lulled into a
false
sense of security
Lynn Lynn City Of
Sin
( Nickname of Lynn Massachusetts )
Men's
evil
manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Money is the root of all
evil
My country right or wrong
Never misses a
trick
No peace for the
wicked
No rest for the
wicked
Nose for
crime
Not so
Not that there's anything wrong with that ( A catchphrase from Seinfeld )
Of
unsound
mind
Off base
Off the rails
On the wrong foot
On the wrong side of the tracks
One
trick
pony
Original
sin
Out of order
Partners in
crime
Penny wise, pound
foolish
Put a foot wrong
Ring
false
Rub up the wrong way
Sailing under
false
colours
See no evil, hear no
evil
speak no
evil
Sexton Blake ( Cockney rhyming slang for
fake
)
Sin
City ( Nickname of Las Vegas Nevada )
So powerful, it's kind of
ridiculous
( 3dfx advertising slogan )
Something
wicked
this way comes
Son of a whore ( a bastard, or a general term of
abuse
)
Take a bite out of
crime
Take a bite out of crime! ( National
Crime
Prevention Council advertising slogan )
The
Evil
Empire
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 Real Slim
Shady
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the
crime
fighting vigilante )
The Whore of Babylon ( a Christian figure of
evil
and corruption )
The axis of
evil
The love of money is the root of all
evil
The man with the
foolish
grin is keeping perfectly still ( The Beatles song lyric )
The perfect
crime
The right place at the wrong time
The wages of
sin
is death
There's something
amiss
Touch Of
Evil
( Charlton Heston / Orson Welles movie )
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of
crime
( Tony Blair political slogan )
Trick
of the light
Trick
or treat
Turn a
trick
Two and two make five
Two
wrongs
don't make a right
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 )
Wicked
stepmother
Without a leg to stand on
Wouldn't go
amiss
Wrong Way Corrigan ( Nickname of Douglas Corrigan )
Wrong side of the blanket
Wrong side of the tracks
Wrong, with a capital R