Lym Nguyen
2021-04-08 07:04
It takes a thief to catch a thief proverb
This idiom implies that a person who is good at shirking the law can guess or realize someone who has similar behavior to catch.
He's a professional robber. He can definitely help us catch the gang of robbers. Easily understanding, it takes a thief to catch a thief.
One of the effective ways to catch the criminal is taking a thief to catch a thief.
David: Why are you letting criminals join us for the investigation? Alex: It takes a thief to catch a thief. He's a criminal, so he will know what criminals might do.
Using someone else's personal information illegally without permission
Reduce or avoid your chances of the future failure or loss by trying several different possibilities instead of one
To be startled or surprised while unprepared; to be put in a difficult or disadvantageous situation when something happens which one does not expect
To take all of another person's or thing's available resources.
If you say that you feel one's collar, you mean that you arrest him legally.
Apparently, the essence of this proverb can be found in Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote, a 1654 commentary by E Gayton on Miguel de Cervantes' early 17th century work. It is also to be found in Thomas Fuller's Church-History of Britain (1655), so presumably the expression was in reasonably common use at the time. Indeed, given that the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes that Callimachus (writing in the second half of the 3rd century BC) said "being a thief myself I recognized the tracks of a thief", the chances are the expression has been around for a very long time. A similar proverb is "an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper".
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