If so, they deserve better than to be adopted by a pack of thieves.

But don't blow family money on that pack of thieves."

They're nothing but a pack of thieves, and how are you supposed to live with a thief next door?"

True enough, Erewhon had been founded by a pack of thieves.

Scraps finds money in a lost wallet, which is then stolen by a pack of thieves.

Said the Thieves' Guild was nothing but a pack of thieves, or something.

"Emerson has flung down the gauntlet to that pack of thieves.

It was a fascinating story of the most exclusive rat pack of thieves in the world.

"Beaten by a pack of thieves and farmers!"

You're one of Devlin's pack of thieves are you?

They're just a pack of thieves and savages, and ungrateful ones, at that."

"Pack of Thieves"

The Night's Watch is a pack of thieves, killers, and baseborn churls, but it occurs to me that they could prove otherwise, given proper discipline.

"That pack of thieves and farmers has been well-trained, Thane," Kharas said solemnly, the generals nodding grudging agreement to his words.

I couldn't abear to think of you, Miss Bonnie, and Miss Sylvia, being left all alone in the house with that harpy and such a pack of thieves.

He hoped there might be jewels or valuables that were not entailed, which could be sold until he had the time to steal more from Stanhope and his pack of thieves.

But neither Gates nor Lee nor anyone else had the authority to keep together what army we had while holding in check the pack of thieves and rhetoricians that called itself the Congress.

In his 2001 book, "Pack of Thieves," U.S. News & World Report correspondent Richard Chesnoff wrote that Tobin is "one of the most thoughtful figures in American Jewish letters."

The raggedy tent city, with its piles of garbage, puddles of standing water, swarms of mosquitoes, packs of thieves and an increasingly restive population, sits in the front yard of the smashed National Palace.

This provides us with some degree of protection against the constant insinuations we have heard over the last few days that Members are a pack of thieves who exploit their assistants and use phantom posts to line their own pockets.

But predatory packs of thieves roam Ho Chi Minh City - which is still called Saigon, except in official usage - unchecked by police forces that are paid so little that the officers must extort bribes to feed their families.

He wasn't certain what was worse: having a pack of thieves join him, or the fact that his destination was common enough knowledge that the worst of the slum-dwellers in Yslin had heard of it - and with enough time to travel to Otedo.

In a country where skin color is a major source of class conflict, one poorly dressed, dark-skinned vendor of souvenirs approached a group of lighter-skinned Haitians sitting on the hoods of their expensive cars and began to berate them, calling them a pack of thieves and freeloaders.

President Jorge Batlle has made an unplanned, emergency trip to Buenos Aires to apologize to his Argentine counterpart, Eduardo Duhalde, for remarks broadcast on Monday in which Mr. Batlle, left, called Argentina's politicians "a pack of thieves, from the first to the last."

The plot is essentially lifted from this much-circulated October 2008 story where a pack of thieves (dressed as road maintenance workers) used Craigslist to recruit a pack of unknowing decoys (actual road maintenance workers) to show up at the location where the crooks were robbing an armored car.