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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.