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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
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Bum
bandit
By
hook
or by crook
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Captain
Hook
( Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson )
Chief of
staff
Con artist
Costa Del
Crime
Counting
sheep
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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
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