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catch someone with one's hand in the cookie jar	To catch someone taking something that he or she is not entitled to.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
caught with one's hand in the cookie jar	Observed or apprehended while committing a theft, especially while embezzling money.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flea in the jar	refers to futility	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
with one's hand in the cookie jar	While committing a theft, especially while embezzling money.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
barrel	A jar. 1 Kings xvii. 12.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cake walk	From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number that number wins a cake.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
colto con le mani nel sacco	caught with one's hand in the cookie jar, caught in the cookie jar, caught raiding the cookie jar	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
screw off	To remove the lid of a jar or other container by unscrewing it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)