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It came in quite unawares, like a thief in the night.
He apparently desired to give the impression that this crisis came like a thief in the night and caught him unprepared.
At that time the war came upon us almost like a thief in the night.
It was something more than critical: it cried aloud for immediate action, because this has not come like a thief in the night.
It will come upon us like a thief in the night.
The enemy will come like a thief in the night.
I think that it will come on us like a thief in the night.
Democracy took charge like a thief in the night.
This crisis, however, came on us almost immediately, like a thief in the night, and we could not possibly take the necessary precautions.
It would come like a thief in the night.
It may come—as these things do come—like a thief in the night.
That is an entirely new principle and it is introduced like a thief in the night.
If the war comes upon you suddenly, like a thief in the night, conscription or no conscription, you will have no plans ready at all.
That little affair with monetarism lasted a few short years and then passed like a thief in the night.
We know from experience in this country that undemocratic agencies can accumulate powers unobtrusively—like a thief in the night.
