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
Twice a day, during the last ten days, the wiry little ferret-faced second-story man had got away with at least one can from the prison commissary.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
Also that second-story man was indicted that stole Alderman Big Bill Perkins’s clothes.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
The draught moving through the hall stirred the portière and reminded him that the window in the trunk-room was still open, an invitation to any enterprising sneak-thief or second-story man.
From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph
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
