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Crime Phrases

234 phrases and expressions related to "crime".

Phrases

  • A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • Accessory after the fact
  • Against the law
  • America's most wanted
  • An abortive attempt
  • Assault with a deadly weapon
  • Attack is the best form of defence
  • Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • Back the wrong horse
  • Barking up the wrong tree
  • Billy The Kid (Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney)
  • Bird dog
  • Black on black
  • Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
  • Book him
  • Born on the wrong side of the blanket
  • Born on the wrong side of the tracks
  • Breach of the peace
  • Breaking and entering
  • Bribery and corruption
  • By hook or by crook
  • Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
  • Case the joint
  • Catch a case
  • Citizen enterprise
  • Citizen's arrest
  • Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
  • Costa Del Crime
  • Cradle robber
  • Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
  • Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
  • Crime against nature
  • Crime doesn't pay
  • Crime of passion
  • Crimes And Misdemeanours (Woody Allen movie)
  • Criminal stupidity
  • Denial of service attack
  • Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
  • Drummed out of the Mafia for cruelty
  • Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
  • Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
  • Evil genius
  • Fall foul of the law
  • Film at eleven
  • From the wrong side of the tracks
  • Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
  • Get off on the wrong foot
  • Get out of jail free
  • Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
  • Get out of the wrong side of the bed
  • Go directly to jail, do not pass go
  • Go down the wrong way
  • Go straight
  • Go wrong
  • Grievous bodily harm
  • Had up
  • Heart attack on a plate
  • Heart attack waiting to happen
  • Helping the police with their enquiries
  • His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • Hold up
  • How wrong can you be?
  • I arrest you in the name of the law
  • I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
  • I fought the law and the law won
  • I'm not a crook
  • If anything can go wrong, it will
  • If this is wrong I don't want to be right
  • If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  • In the wrong
  • Indecent exposure
  • Innocent until proven guilty
  • Inside job
  • It takes a thief to catch a thief
  • It went down the wrong way
  • It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
  • Jack the Ripper (Nickname of Victorian murderer)
  • Jail bait
  • Jail bird
  • Jonnies out of jail
  • Jump to the wrong conclusion
  • Known to the police
  • Laugh on the wrong side of your face
  • Law and order
  • Let the punishment fit the crime
  • Like a thief in the night
  • Line of attack
  • Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
  • Message in A Bottle (Police song)
  • Mug's game
  • My country right or wrong
  • Nose for crime
  • Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
  • On the wrong foot
  • On the wrong side of the tracks
  • Once a thief, always a thief
  • Outside the law
  • Partners in crime
  • Pass sentence
  • Police state
  • Procrastination is the thief of time
  • Put a foot wrong
  • Resisting arrest
  • Revenge mission (an attempt to seek active retribution)
  • Revenge sex (sex with the intention of infecting a partner with Aids)
  • Rich man poor man beggerman thief
  • Robber barons
  • Rub up the wrong way
  • Serious as a heart attack
  • Set a thief to catch a thief
  • Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • Snack attack
  • Son of Sam (Nickname of David Berkowitz)
  • Stranger danger
  • Take a bite out of crime
  • Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
  • Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
  • That frosty mug sensation (A&W Root Beer advertising slogan)
  • The Acid-bath Killer (Nickname of John Haigh)
  • The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Creeping Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Red-Headed League (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Resident Patient (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Three Gables (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Three Students (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Boston Strangler (Nickname of Albert DeSalvo)
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
  • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
  • The Hillside Strangler (Nickname of Alessio and Angelo)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Agatha Christie book title)
  • The Moors Murderers (Nickname of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley)
  • The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
  • The Problem of Thor Bridge (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
  • The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Thief (Nickname of Sedale Threatt)
  • The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
  • The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Zodiac Killer (Nickname of Seda Heriberto)
  • The best defence is a good offence
  • The butler did it
  • The perfect crime
  • The right place at the wrong time
  • Thought police
  • Three strikes and you are out
  • Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
  • Tooled up
  • Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
  • Trial and error
  • Trial and tribulation
  • Trial by television
  • Ugly mug
  • Voter fraud
  • Walking On The Moon (The Police song)
  • War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
  • We've got you covered
  • What's wrong with this picture?
  • Whipping boy
  • Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
  • Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
  • Wrong side of the blanket
  • Wrong side of the tracks
  • Wrong, with a capital R
  • You aren't obliged to say anything
  • Zero tolerance

Related

  • Costa Del Crime
  • Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
  • Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
  • Crime against nature
  • Crime doesn't pay
  • Crime of passion
  • If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  • Let the punishment fit the crime
  • Nose for crime
  • Partners in crime
  • Take a bite out of crime
  • Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
  • The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
  • The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
  • The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
  • The perfect crime
  • Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)