rogues' gallery | Idiomator

Meaning: A set ofpicturesofconvictedorsuspectedcriminalsused inlaw enforcementinvestigationsto helpwitnessesidentifysuspects.1866, "Readings for the Young: TheRogues' Gallery," inThe Christian Treasury, Johnstone, Hunter & Co. (Edinburgh),pp. 322-323:When the policemen arrest a man . . . if there is good reason to suspect him, they take his picture before they let him go. . . . Then they put the picture up in therogues' galleryamong the others, where everybody who comes there can see it.1984,William Diehl,Hooligans,→ISBN,page41:"Recognize these people?" Dutch asked, pointing to therogues' gallery.I nodded. "All of 'em. Cutthroats to the man."; (idiomatic,by extension)Any group oflawbreakersor otherdisreputablecharacters.1951December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, inRailway Magazine, page800:By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in hisrogues' galleryentitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.1997,Rohinton Mistry,Such a Long Journey,→ISBN,page325:The old staple of every demonstration:gully gully may shor hai, Congress Party chor hai—the cry goes up in every alley, Congress Party is a 'rogues' gallery—was very much in evidence.2006February 6, “The Man Who Sold the Bomb”, inTime:For more than a decade, Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, masterminded a vast, clandestine and hugely profitable enterprise whose mission boiled down to this: selling to arogues' galleryof nations the technology and equipment to make nuclear weapons.; (fiction)The set ofsupervillainsassociated with a particularsuperheroorcomic booktitle.

Examples:

EN: These plans had thumbprints on them. -That's true. Did you check in the rogues' gallery to whom these thumbprints belonged?
ES: El aviso que les llegó... tenía huellas dactilares. ¿Buscaron Uds. entre sus fichas de delincuentes, para ver a quién pertenecían?
EN: This is the reverse of what police call a rogues' gallery.
ES: Es lo inverso de un fichero de delincuentes.
EN: It would lower my stock if he found me in this rogues' gallery.
ES: Mi reputación caería por los suelos si me encontrase... - ...en esta cueva de ladrones.
EN: - He's still looking over rogues' gallery.
ES: - Está mirando fotos de sospechosos.
EN: A witness just picked this one out of rogues' gallery.
ES: Un testigo escogió esta ficha de la galería de sospechosos.
EN: You already have him. He's in the office looking through your rogues' gallery.
ES: Ya es suyo, está afuera admirando su galería de rufianes.
EN: So now he qualifies for the rogues' gallery, subsection, treason.
ES: Así que ahora es un delincuente del tipo traidor.
EN: No one from our rogues' gallery, or I'd recognize him.
ES: No está en el archivo de habituales, si no le reconocería.
EN: I'll show you my rogues' gallery.
ES: Les mostraré mi colección de fotos.
EN: I thought I knew about the entire rogues' gallery.
ES: Creí que conocía la galería entera de villanas.
EN: Let's go over our rogues' gallery.
ES: Vamos a repasar nuestra lista de enemigos.
EN: -It's a rogues' gallery, is it not?
ES: - Qué triste museo, ¿no?
EN: Good of you to drop in, considering that three quarters of the Iniquity Collective are from your rogues' gallery.
ES: Qué bueno de tu parte haberte aparecido, considerando que tres cuartas partes de la Inequidad Colectiva viene de tu galería de villanos.
EN: Fix me an all rogues' gallery of all the faces in the case.
ES: Prepárame las fotos de archivo de todas las caras de este caso.
EN: It really was this rogues' gallery of staten island scumbags that they thought they could use to put away Peter Gatien.
ES: Realmente era una galería de delincuentes de Staten Island SE HAN DECLARADO CULPABLES DE TOMAR PARTE EN UNA CONSPIRACIÓN que creyeron poder usar para encerrar a Peter Gatien. PARA DISTRIBUIR MDMA Y COCAÍNA

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