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A thief. We still call one who plunders shops a “shop-lifter.”
“Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?”
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, i. 2.
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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.
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