second-story man
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A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twice a day, during the last ten days, the wiry little ferret-faced second-story man had got away with at least one can from the prison commissary.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
I have about as much weight in financial circles as a second-story man, and am regarded in much the same light, while you are as important as a cipher without the rim.
From The Lady Doc by Caroline Lockhart
"Who was the pop-eyed second-story man with the bald head and the convex waistcoat who glued himself to me to-night?"
From The Coming of Bill by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
“Besides,” he said peaceably, “I’m all dressed up pretty now, and it doesn’t look right for a respectable member of society to be pulling off second-story man stunts.”
From The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
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