Stolen Phrases

Phrases

• Beg, borrow or steal
• 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
• Hot money
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• It takes a thief to catch a thief
• It's a steal
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Like a thief in the night
• Nose for crime
• Once a thief, always a thief
• Partners in crime
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Shake your booty
• Steal a glance
• Steal a kiss
• Steal a march
• Steal someone's heart
• Steal someone's thunder
• Steal the scene
• Steal the show
• Steal third base
• 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 Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• 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 perfect crime
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)