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

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

Also that second-story man was indicted that stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins’s clothes.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

“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 Vance, Louis Joseph

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 Lockhart, Caroline