Crook Phrases

Phrases

• Accessory after the fact
• And Dream of Sheep (Kate Bush song)
• Arse bandit
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As gentle as a lamb
• Aye aye shepherd's pie
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Be a lamb
• Beltway bandit
• Black sheep of the family
• Bum bandit
• By hook or by crook
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Chief of staff
• Con artist
• Costa Del Crime
• Counting sheep
• 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
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hook line and sinker
• Hook up with
• I'm not a crook
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• In like a lion out like a lamb
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• It takes a thief to catch a thief
• It takes one to know one
• Lamb chop
• Lamb to the slaughter
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Let off the hook
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Like a thief in the night
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)

• Make sheep's eyes at
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Must have accessory
• Mutton dressed as lamb
• Nose for crime
• Off the hook
• Once a thief, always a thief
• One armed bandit
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Partners in crime
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Real piece of work
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Ring off the hook
• Robber barons
• Scam artist
• Separate the sheep from the goats
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Skeleton staff
• Sling your hook
• Smokey And The Bandit (Burt Reynolds movie)
• Staff of life
• 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 Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Good Shepherd
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood movie)
• 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 lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The perfect crime
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Voter fraud
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• Wolf in sheep's clothing