Robbing

  • 11TOMB ROBBING —    The richness of the contents of Etruscan tombs and the wilingness of some museums and collectors to pay good money for their contents has unfortunately led to a spate of tomb robbing over a very long period of time. Caere has particularly… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

  • 12cradle\ robbing — • cradle robber • cradle robbing See: rob the cradle …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 13cradle-robbing — adj or noun Bob is seventeen and I just saw him with a girl about twelve years old. Has he started cradle robbing? No, that girl was his sister, not his date! See: rob the cradle and cradle robber …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 14nest robbing — see cleptobiosis …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 15heart-robbing — a. 1. Stealing the heart, winning, winsome, enamouring. 2. Crushing thought, transporting, rapturous, ravishing, enrapturing, enravishing, ecstatic, entrancing, that carries one beside one s self …

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  • 16pillar robbing — noun : the mining and removal of pillars after the main coal or ore body has been removed called also pillar drawing …

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  • 17List of Marvel Family enemies — Through his adventures, Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family gained a host of enemies, including the following: Contents 1 Acrobat 2 Adolf Hitler 3 Amoeba Family …

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  • 18rob the cradle — {v. phr.}, {informal} To have dates with or marry a person much younger than yourself. * /When the old woman married a young man, everyone said she was robbing the cradle./ [cradle robber] {n.} * /The judge died when he was seventy. He was a real …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 19rob the cradle — {v. phr.}, {informal} To have dates with or marry a person much younger than yourself. * /When the old woman married a young man, everyone said she was robbing the cradle./ [cradle robber] {n.} * /The judge died when he was seventy. He was a real …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 20Mahjong — For other uses, see Mahjong (disambiguation). Mahjong A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China Chinese name Traditional Chinese …

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