'to catch a thief'

  • 1To Catch a Thief — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Über den Dächern von Nizza Originaltitel: To Catch a Thief Produktionsland: USA Erscheinungsjahr: 1955 Länge: 106 Minuten Originalsprache: Englisch …

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  • 2To Catch a Thief — is a 1952 thriller novel by David Dodge. John Robie is a former jewel thief, formerly known as The Cat , who now spends his time tending to his vineyards in France. There is a series of jewel robberies on the Riviera that resemble his style and… …

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  • 3To Catch a Thief — Título Para atrapar al ladrón Atrapa a un ladrón Ficha técnica Dirección Alfred Hitchcock Producción Alfred Hitchcock …

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  • 4To Catch a Thief (film) — Infobox Film name = To Catch a Thief caption= Original film poster imdb id = 0048728 amg id = 1:50148 director = Alfred Hitchcock writer = Novel: David Dodge Screenplay: John Michael Hayes starring = Cary Grant Grace Kelly Jessie Royce Landis… …

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  • 5set a thief to catch a thief — Cf. CALLIMACHUS Epigram xliii. φωρὸς δ᾽ ἴχνια φὼρ ἔμαθον, being a thief myself I recognized the tracks of a thief. 1654 E. GAYTON Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote IV. ii. As they say, set a fool to catch a fool; a Proverb not of that gravity (as… …

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  • 6set a thief to catch a thief — The best person to catch a criminal is another criminal  as they understand how criminals work …

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  • 7Catch — Catch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caught}or {Catched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Catching}. Catched is rarely used.] [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to… …

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  • 8To Catch a Thief —    Voir La Main au collet …

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  • 9catch — see you cannot catch old birds with chaff it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice a cat in gloves catches no mice a drowning man will clutch at a straw eagles don’t catch flies …

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  • 10catch — I. verb (caught; catching) Etymology: Middle English cacchen, from Anglo French cacher, chacher, chacer to hunt, from Vulgar Latin *captiare, alteration of Latin captare to chase, frequentative of capere to take more at heave Date: 13th century… …

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