Thief Phrases

Phrases

• Arse bandit
• As thick as thieves
• Beltway bandit
• Bum bandit
• By hook or by crook
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• 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
• Hold up
• Honour amongst thieves
• I'm not a crook
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• It takes a thief to catch a thief
• Joy rider
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Light fingered
• Like a thief in the night
• Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
• Nose for crime
• Once a thief, always a thief

• One armed bandit
• Partners in crime
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rob someone blind
• Robber barons
• Robin Prince Of Thieves (Kevin Costner movie)
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Smokey And The Bandit (Burt Reynolds movie)
• Stick fingers
• Sticky fingers
• 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 Artful Dodger (Nickname of Jack Dawkins)
• 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)
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)