train robbery
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftrainandrobbery
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train
noun
uk/treɪn/us/treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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robbery
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈrɒb.ər.i/us/ˈrɑː.bɚ.i/
the crime of stealing from somewhere ...
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(Definition oftrainandrobberyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The greattrainrobberywas perfectly normal, but it was a rather bigger than normal robbery.
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My noble friend raised the question of thetrainrobberyand lessons to be learned from it.
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What concerns me is that that coincides with another event of 1963, namely the greattrainrobbery.
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Will they get their rights if they sell their story of, say, atrainrobbery?
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It is like having atrainrobberyevery week.
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I think that the sequel to the mailtrainrobberywould have been a bulliontrainrobbery.
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The public has been exercised in recent months by the greattrainrobbery.
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I think that the mailtrainrobberyaspect of this problem is slightly irrelevant.
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I am aware that the mailtrainrobberywas thought to be the last word in ingenuity.
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Thetrainrobberysentences have to some extent disturbed the whole hierarchy of sentences.
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It is questionable whether the men who are now serving their 30 year sentence for thetrainrobberywill have to serve 30 years.
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Some of the loot from dishonest activities there makes the greattrainrobberyseem like minor pickpocketing.
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I had my attention drawn to these matters by the wage snatches of anything up to £250,000 this summer and by the greattrainrobbery.
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Is not that the biggest steal since the greattrainrobbery?
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Some of the cases of fraud of defalcation make robberies like the mailtrainrobberyseem like peanuts, but they do not get the same publicity.
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In the case of thetrainrobbery, which is a national crime of tremendous importance, is it fair that the county should be expected to bear the very high costs?
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The greattrainrobbery, the bullion robbery, these are just the tip of the thing; it also operates on a small scale all down the line.
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It is a sad reflection that he has now so completely changed sides and has embarked against the citizenry of this country in a greattrainrobberyof his own.
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