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
"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)
Sam was no second-story man; he worked on the ground floor in broad daylight.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
"Yes, but this business doesn't make me feel like a pirate—more like a second-story man!"
From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Frederick, Edmund
Also that second-story man was indicted that stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins’s clothes.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
