Reader's Digest ３月号の記事 'Why Didn't I Think of That?' から引用します。
犯人を取り押さえて警察に渡しても、軽い罰なので、いっこうに減らない万引きに悩む店の経営者が考えた苦肉の策は？。
The management hired a marching band, bought flowers, and made signs celebrating a "10,000th shoplifter."
Then, when secrity spotted a woman on the in-store camera nicking some clothes, employees descended on her, jubilantly saluting her light-fingered ways. The embarassed woman stood stunned amid the fracas. Then she pulled the party hat off her head, took a piece of "10,000th shoplifter" cake, and made her escape, the band in hot purshut.
日本語の「手癖の悪い」を連想させる "light-fingered" ですが、辞書で意味を確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Prone to steal.: light-fingered shoplifters
・Collins Dictionary: having nimble or agile fingers, esp for thieving or picking pockets: But I do have designs on your... shall we say, light-fingered talents?
犯人を取り押さえて警察に渡しても、軽い罰なので、いっこうに減らない万引きに悩む店の経営者が考えた苦肉の策は？。
The management hired a marching band, bought flowers, and made signs celebrating a "10,000th shoplifter."
Then, when secrity spotted a woman on the in-store camera nicking some clothes, employees descended on her, jubilantly saluting her light-fingered ways. The embarassed woman stood stunned amid the fracas. Then she pulled the party hat off her head, took a piece of "10,000th shoplifter" cake, and made her escape, the band in hot purshut.
日本語の「手癖の悪い」を連想させる "light-fingered" ですが、辞書で意味を確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Prone to steal.: light-fingered shoplifters
・Collins Dictionary: having nimble or agile fingers, esp for thieving or picking pockets: But I do have designs on your... shall we say, light-fingered talents?
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