To survey or inspect a place, especially a building, in preparation for a crime (such as a robbery).
📖 general
General idioms that span a wide range of everyday topics.
evaluating each situation individually rather than applying a blanket rule.
Payment in full, immediately, and in cash.
To create a feeling of uneasiness, fear, or a lack of enthusiasm.
To cause sadness, gloom, or to spoil something; to diminish something positive.
Something that is permanent, fixed, and unchangeable.
To offer something valuable or beautiful to someone who cannot appreciate it or who will not understand its worth.
To be the first to criticize or accuse someone, especially when one is also guilty of similar faults.
A plan, dream, or hope that is unrealistic, impossible, or has little chance of being realized.
dreams or plans that are unrealistic and unlikely to happen.
a stealthy thief who enters buildings quietly to steal.
Someone who looks self-satisfied, especially after having done something mischievous or wrong.