second-story man
Example Sentences
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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
"Yes, but this business doesn't make me feel like a pirate—more like a second-story man!"
From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Frederick, Edmund
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 Marshall, Edison
"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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Mr. Peters, indeed, specifically described the Earl of Emsworth as an oily old second-story man.
From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
