to pick and steal
11pick (someone's) pocket — 1. to steal from your pockets or bag without you noticing. Someone in the subway picked my pocket and got my wallet. 2. to cheat someone. Her lawyer told her that he would look out for her interests and then proceeded to pick her pocket …
12Pick — Pick, v. i. 1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. [1913 Webster] Why stand st thou picking? Is thy palate sore? Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something… …
13pick — I [[t]pɪk[/t]] v. t. 1) to choose or select, esp. with care 2) to seek and find occasion for; provoke: to pick a fight[/ex] 3) to attempt to find; seek out: to pick flaws in an argument[/ex] 4) to steal the contents of: to pick a pocket[/ex] 5)… …
14steal — 1 /sti:l/ verb past tense stole, past participle stolen / stUln stoU / 1 TAKE STH (I, T) to take something that belongs to someone else (+ from): Some drug users steal from their own families to finance their habit. | steal sth: Sean has a long… …
15pick — 1. to steal OED notes a use in 1300, which makes it one of the oldest euphemisms in the language, and in regular use since then: A charge of picking and unlawfully intermitting with his neighbour s goods. (Hector, 1876) To pick a… …
16Steal (poker) — In poker, the term steal is often used as merely a synonym for bluff, but there is a more specific use of the term which is also called an ante steal or blind steal (depending on whether the game being played uses antes or blinds).To steal is to… …
17pick a pocket — {v. phr.} To steal by removing from the pocket of another. * /While in the train, somebody picked his pocket and took the last dollar he had./ …
18pick a pocket — {v. phr.} To steal by removing from the pocket of another. * /While in the train, somebody picked his pocket and took the last dollar he had./ …
19pick\ a\ pocket — v. phr. To steal by removing from the pocket of another. While in the train, somebody picked his pocket and took the last dollar he had …
20You shall not steal — is one of the Ten Commandments,[1] of the Torah (the Pentateuch), which are widely understood as moral imperatives by legal scholars, Jewish scholars, Catholic scholars, and Post Reformation scholars.[2] Though usually understood to prohibit the… …
