Criminal Phrases

Phrases

• A prisoner of conscience
• Accessory after the fact
• America's most wanted
• Answers to the description of
• Armed and dangerous
• Arse bandit
• As sober as a judge
• Babyface Nelson (Nickname of Lester Gillis)
• Back the wrong horse
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Beltway bandit
• Bent double
• Bent out of shape
• Billy The Kid (Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney)
• Bird dog
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Bum bandit
• By hook or by crook
• Cop killer
• 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
• Criminal stupidity
• Evil genius
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Gangster rap
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Go down the wrong way
• Go straight
• Go wrong
• Habitual offender
• Hanging judge
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• Hell bent
• Here comes de judge (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Hit man
• How wrong can you be?
• 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
• Illegal alien
• In the wrong
• 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)
• Judge Judy
• Judge not, that ye be not judged
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Known to the police
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Let me not judge anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Like a thief in the night

• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Master of disguise
• Must have accessory
• My country right or wrong
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Nose for crime
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Old lag
• Old sweat
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• Once a thief, always a thief
• One armed bandit
• Original Gangster Ice T song
• Outside the law
• Partners in crime
• Pretty Boy Floyd (Nickname of Charles Floyd)
• Prison works
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Put a foot wrong
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Robber barons
• Rub up the wrong way
• Save it for the judge
• Second storey man
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Smokey And The Bandit (Burt Reynolds movie)
• Son of Sam (Nickname of David Berkowitz)
• 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)
• The Acid-bath Killer (Nickname of John Haigh)
• The Boston Strangler (Nickname of Albert DeSalvo)
• The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Hillside Strangler (Nickname of Alessio and Angelo)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman movie)
• The Moors Murderers (Nickname of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Prisoner's Song (Vernon Dalhart song)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The Thief (Nickname of Sedale Threatt)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The Zodiac Killer (Nickname of Seda Heriberto)
• The perfect crime
• The right place at the wrong time
• The usual suspects
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television
• Voter fraud
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• What's wrong with this picture?
• 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 be the judge