A certain door-to-door salesman made a fool of a trusting old lady and went off with a lot of her money.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

Her husband vanished [disappeared] (into thin air) a couple of years ago. It is not known whether he was kidnapped or ran away to escape debt collectors.

The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet

He had had his fingers in the till for years.

An office girl was robbed of an envelope containing 100,000 yen on her way back from the bank.

An office girl was robbed of the envelope containing 100,000 yen on her way back from the bank.

The official got the sack for currying favor with the contractors.

The old woman fell an easy prey to the fraud.

I surprised him in the act of stealing money from the till.

he grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled

The day's takings [proceeds] were stolen by robbers as they were being taken to the bank.

The salesman cheated her into buying a fake.

He exclaimed at [over] the extraordinary price of the house.

The man confessed that he had robbed the old woman.

The man, pointing a pistol at a female bank clerk, demanded money.

She caught the clerk taking money from the cash register.

It was she who had rescued him from his financial problems when his business went bankrupt.

I felt embarrassed [awkward] when an acquaintance caught me leaving a pachinko parlor.

She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks

The Diet member lost credibility because of his overreaching.

It was unheard of for a literary master, of all people, to get in financial trouble and fall in ruins.

The kidnap(p)ers demanded a ransom in exchange for her safe return.

She was in cahoots with the gang in their attempt to rob the bank.

The piker won some money playing poker.

The miser opened the box to find his money stolen.

Dillinger tells her that he is a notorious bank robber.

After the success of their casino robbery, Ocean and his men have tried to lead quiet lives with their money.

He descended to importuning his friends for loans.

That woman was being threatened with a knife and was demanded for money by a robber.

He was shocked at the discovery that she had embezzled from his business.

The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair