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- thief in the night
thief in the night
thief in the night
A person or thing that moves in a swift and secretive, stealthy, or surreptitious manner. The cancer spread through my lungs and into my bones like a thief in the night, giving me no chance of beating it.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
TuÂN | | - | Vietnamese |
Saffron | | SAF-rən | English (Rare) |
Darshan | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada |
Tyrone | | tie-RON | English |
Numitor | | - | Roman Mythology |
Tibor | | - | Hungarian, Czech, Slovak |