Sticky-finger

[…] "picking up" a few essential supplies, writing post-cards, and watching our Cockney comedian soft-soap the sales-girls while he sticky-fingered a few personal necessities.

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'This one will be called the Crimson Star of Sri Lanka, and it will be placed on display where every Lankan may visit it but where our politicians and thieves will not be able to sticky-finger it away again.'

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But Globe and Mail columnist Simon Houpt's new book shows that sticky-fingering a Rembrandt or a Goya is becoming a menacingly common occurrence. Art theft, according to Interpol, adds up to between $1.5-billion and $6-billion annually, ...

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... drove into town and bought a takeaway at a dingy working-class cafe. Then I drove up Signal Hill and in the stark, early morning light, the bay still covered in mist, watched the sun rise, sticky-fingering sausages and chips in contentment.

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