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
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)
The draught moving through the hall stirred the portière and reminded him that the window in the trunk-room was still open, an invitation to any enterprising sneak-thief or second-story man.
From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph
Also that second-story man was indicted that stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins’s clothes.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
Sam was no second-story man; he worked on the ground floor in broad daylight.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
