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

Claude has acted for many years as a second-story man for Guissepi, and is one of the very best ice-cutters in the whole monkey business.

From Skiddoo! by McHugh, Hugh

Mr. Peters, indeed, specifically described the Earl of Emsworth as an oily old second-story man.

From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Also that second-story man was indicted that stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins’s clothes.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

I have about as much weight in financial circles as a second-story man, and am regarded in much the same light, while you are as important as a cipher without the rim.

From The Lady Doc by Lockhart, Caroline