| 词组 | little thieves are hanged but great ones escape |
| 释义 | (redirected from little thieves are hanged but great ones escape)Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.Those who commit small crimes will face the full consequences of the law, but those who commit crimes on a huge scale will go unpunished. So some guy who holds up a liquor store with a gun because his family can't afford food gets 30 years in prison, but a wealthy CEO who robs millions of people of their pensions gets a few months of community service? I tell you, little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.Prov. Truly expert criminals are never caught. Everyone's making such a fuss because they convicted that bank robber, but he must not have been a very dangerous criminal. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. |
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