| 单词 | crime doesn't pay |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrime doesn't pay P4. crime doesn't pay and variants: punishment rather than profit or advantage is the ultimate consequence of crime. ΚΠ 1860 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 8 89 In these hours of solitude he is led, perhaps for the first time in his life, to wholesome reflection. His earliest thought will probably be that crime does not pay. 1892 Catholic World Dec. 364 Our laws are so made and executed as to prove that crime doesn't pay. 1937 Rotarian Feb. 61/1 Some of them go to the point of carrying a line, ‘Crime Never Pays’, at the head of every news article telling about the arrest and punishment of a criminal. 1969 R. Salerno & J. S. Tompkins Crime Confederation 94 Society's official message has been: Crime Does Not Pay. 2001 J. A. Schwarcz Genie in Bottle 187 Trepal spent two years in jail for that crime, but he failed to learn that crime doesn't pay. < as lemmas |
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