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Set a thief to catch a thief
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Prov. The best person to catch a thief is another thief, because he or she knows how thieves think. The government set a thief to catch a thief, hiring a stockbroker convicted of fraudulent practices to entrap the stockbroker they were investigating for fraud.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Ji-Eun | | jee-uwn | Korean |
CornÉLio | | - | Portuguese |
Jalo | | YAH-lo | Finnish |
Geoffrey | | JEF-ree (English), zhaw-FRE (French) | English, French |
Yaser | | - | Persian, Turkish, Arabic |
Rikuto | | ṙee-koo-to | Japanese |