July 18, 2009
Dear Pete
"like a thief in the night" means "sneaky and quiet and unprincipled". It doesn't necessarily imply thievery as such.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at
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Well, it does have a strong "furtive" connotation - not necessarily "I am stealing something", true, but definitely "I am doing something that I need to conceal because people would not like it" rather than, say, "I'm preparing a neat surprise and need to keep it secret". For Bob, it's a reasonable thing to say precisely because he is a person who does not like what they were doing. ;p
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at July 18, 2009 12:27 PM (pWQz4)
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BTW, Evirus e-mailed me that the thief thing is a quote from the Bible referring to the second coming.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at July 20, 2009 09:16 AM (/ppBw)
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