an inside job

an inside job

set phrase A crime committed by someone who is closely involved with the targeted person or group. The robbery must have been an inside job—only three people have access to the safe.
See also: inside, job
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

inside job

a crime committed by someone working or living at the scene of the crime. There was little doubt that it was an inside job, thought the inspector. It's a particularly cunning way to carry out an inside job.
See also: inside, job
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

an inside job

n. a crime perpetrated against an establishment by someone associated with the victimized establishment. (Underworld.) It was an inside job all right. The butler did it.
See also: inside, job
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a penny for them
  • great minds
  • great minds think alike
  • one for all, (and) all for one
  • all for one, and one for all
  • sure as eggs is eggs
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • not tonight, Josephine
  • be twiddling (one's) thumbs
  • be twiddling your thumbs
References in periodicals archive
That's not a good job, that's an inside job.) The senator also noted that corruption appears to follow Faeldon whichever agency he is assigned.
Mombasa police have recovered the 5,000 bags of the deadly sugar suspected to have mercury which went missing a few weeks ago in what they suspected was an inside job.
Mr Kinoti said investigations reveal the robbery was an inside job.
The security guards and other mall officers have been questioned to determine if the break-in was an inside job.
But instead of giving reasons or proof on the basis of which he gave the statement, he just recited some verses suggesting that it was an inside job a treacherous murder committed by those who were immediate beneficiaries of the killing.
Gazmen said the holdup could be an inside job since "the management of the hotel failed to deposit their hotel income to the bank."
That is exactly the purpose that Susan Barbara Apollon (a Pennsylvania-licensed psychologist, as well as a cancer survivor and thriver) has written "An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey offers readers".
But there were enough twists in the police investigation to keep viewers guessing in Channel 5's gripping documentary The Accused: An Inside Job? Lucasz claimed he was innocent even when the evidence looked damning.
In yet another tweet message, Khawaja Asif said that the possibility of Uri attack being an inside job could not be ruled out.
Scavenger worms could have tunneled through the gut after the dino's death, but his team found only one type of worm burrow "which suggests that either only one kind of scavenger had access to the carcass," or "that these burrows were an inside job," Tweet says.
A SECURITY guard has told a jury that the Hatton Garden jewel heist must have been an inside job.
On Wednesday, a team of Syrian army's special forces raided a meeting of the ISIL commanders in an inside job and killed tens of the militants' leaders.
As regards the attack on the premises, a modicum of physical force and masks, sounds like an inside job to me!
Washington, December 29 ( ANI ): The robbery at Miley Cyrus' house seems to be an inside job.
BAGHDAD, Dhu-AlQa'dah 13, 1433, Sep 29, 2012, SPA - Iraq's Interior Ministry says a prison break in Tikrit town in which dozens of al-Qaida-linked militants escaped was an inside job and that 20 people were killed, including 16 security force members and four inmates, AP reported.