time burglar

time burglar

A person or thing that distracts or takes time from more useful or productive activities. I'm trying to catch up on work after being out sick, but my inbox is such a time burglar. I'll call my mom back later—she can be a real time burglar, and I need to finish up this essay.
See also: time
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sick in the head
  • get sick
  • take sick
  • sick as a dog, to be
  • be off sick
  • fish or cut bait
  • you make me sick
  • sick as a dog
  • (as) sick as a dog
  • be (as) sick as a dog
References in periodicals archive
During that time burglars broke into her home, stealing jewellery and sentimental items.
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Around the same time burglars also got into a house in Greencroft Avenue, again through an unlocked door, and stole a Toshiba laptop, Xbox games console and a Newcastle United shirt.
Residents warned of sneak thefts
Another time burglars slashed her couch and scattered clothes all over her bedroom in an untidy search for valuables escaping with her dead husband's watch.
I'M TOO SCARED TO LIVE HERE ANY MORE; 4 burglaries forceWalton gran to sell up
One of the founding members of the church, Barbara Ward, aged 72, said it was not the first time burglars had struck.
Break-in anguish for tots; CHURCH: Thieves grab toys and cakes
"The last time burglars struck, they really were petrified." The latest raid took place despite a toughened brick wall being put in place at the back of the building following the earlier burglary.
Sledgehammer used in post office raid; 'Substantial' quantity of cash stolen as thief strikes
It was not the first time burglars had targeted the terraced house.
GLADYS, 87 SCARED TO DEATH BY BURGLARS; Terrified mum of seven collapses after break-in bid
It is the second time burglars have tricked the woman.
Conmen take great-gran's funeral fund
Yet although the fear of it is greater than ever, your Lord Chancellor says first and second time burglars should not be jailed.
Voice of the Sunday People: Listen to your true friends before you lose the plot, Tony
The last time burglars struck they really were petrified." The latest raid happened despite a toughened brick wall being installed at the back of the building after the earlier burglary.
Daylight robbery at suburban post office; Sledgehammer raid: cash taken
It is the third time this month that thieves have targeted the Coventry and East Mercia Co-op, in Warwick Road, and each time burglars have made off with wide screen plasma TVs.
Third raid on store nets TVs
He reckons, that first time burglars should, basically, get away with it.
Ulster Man of the People: Talks through the Derry air
This time burglars targeted the arts and crafts cup-board, top, tombola prizes, centre above right, and the church vestry, above
Burglars bring distress to kids' play centre yet again By
But the judge, Recorder Dafydd Hughes, said Owen had no previous convictions for burglary and could come under the recent Court of Appeal guidelines where first- time burglars did not necessarily need to go to prison.
Burglar walks free; Ex-prisoner sentenced as `a first-time thief'
The only alternative to custody is community service and the outcry to the judges' ruling that first or second time burglars should be punished in that way proves how unacceptable it is.
Prisoners could be a community asset
This smash and grab from a man who says we don't mind second time burglars not being slammed up.
STOTTY ON SUNDAY: US AND THEM