Kẻ trộm, kẻ cắp

to cry out thieves

kêu trộm, hô hoán kẻ trộm

set a thief to catch a thief

(tục ngữ) dùng trộm cướp bắt trộm cướp, lấy độc trị độc

like a thief in the night

lén lút, không để ai nhìn thấy

bơm hút

N.

Robber, burglar, cat burglar, housebreaker, picklock,sneak-thief, safe-cracker, pilferer, shoplifter, purloiner;embezzler, peculator; pickpocket, cutpurse, purse-snatcher,mugger, highwayman, footpad, brigand, bandit, thug, dacoit,ruffian, outlaw, desperado, hijacker, gunman, plunderer;poacher; Technical kleptomaniac, Australian bush-ranger, USroad-agent, Colloq hold-up man, crook, US second-story orsecond-storey man, bandito or bandido, Slang cracksman, box man,dip, stick-up man: They caught the thief who took thepaintings.

Cheat, swindler, confidence man, mountebank,charlatan, sharper, trickster, flimflam artist or man,thimblerigger, Colloq con man, con artist, shell-game artist, UShighbinder: That thief cheated them out of their savings.

Pirate, (sea) rover, picaroon or pickaroon, corsair, freebooter,buccaneer, marauder, filibuster, privateer: They might seemromantic in retrospect, but at the time, pirates were no morethan common thieves.

N.

(pl. thieves) a person who steals esp. secretly and withoutviolence. [OE theof f. Gmc]