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
"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)
"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
Also that second-story man was indicted that stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins’s clothes.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
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)
