life of crime

idiom

: habitual breaking of the law
He turned to a life of crime as a teenager.

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After Will refused to cooperate with the criminals, Rafael shot one of them in order to save Will — sending him to prison and solidifying his trajectory towards a life of crime. Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025 Yu-jeong is the one who picks Beom-jun up when he is released from prison, and the two fall back into a life of crime together. Kayti Burt, Time, 4 Apr. 2025 From Mad Men's Don Draper to Andrew Cooper turning to a life of crime to maintain his lavish lifestyle in his new series Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple TV+), Hamm knows. H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025 The Hulu comedy from creator Abdullah Saeed centers on two pampered Pakistani-American brothers (played by Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh) who must reckon with their late father’s life of crime after his passing. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for life of crime

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“Life of crime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20of%20crime. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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