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

Sam was no second-story man; he worked on the ground floor in broad daylight.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana

"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)

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