Robert Macaire.

He’s a Robert Macaire. A bluff, free-living, unblushing libertine, who commits the most horrible crimes without stint or compunction. It is a character in M. Daumier’s drama of LʹAuberge des Adrets. His accomplice is Bertrand, a simpleton and villain. (See Macaire.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Roaring Game (The)
Roaring Trade
Roast
Roasting One
Rob
Rob Roy [Robert the Red]
Robber
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Robert
Robert François Damiens
Robert Macaire
Robert Street (Adelphi; London)
Robert le Diable
Robert the Devil
Robert of Brunne
Robert’s Men
Robespierre’s Weavers
Robin Goodfellow
Robin Gray (Auld)
Robin Hood
Robin Hood Wind (A)