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rogues' gallery
noun
- a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
rogues' gallery
noun
- a collection of photographs of known criminals kept by the police for identification purposes
- a group of undesirable people
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rogues' gallery1
Idioms and Phrases
A police collection of pictures of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. For example, The detective went through the entire rogues' gallery but couldn't find a match with the suspect . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
He is the latest addition to the rogues gallery of felons and neâer do wells who will populate the White House, the Trump Cabinet, and other posts starting on Jan. 20.
The endless malleability of this part of the DC Comic universe is related to knowing that its hero and most of its core roguesâ gallery, even at their most fantastical, are subject to the laws of physics, including socioeconomic gravity.
After a deep dive into Batmanâs rogues gallery and noticing how many of them existed in reaction to Batman, Reeves considered a version of the Penguin who had yet to reach the status of a feared crime boss.
With Richard Beckinsale as his impressionable cellmate Lennie Godber, the series has a colourful roguesâ gallery of prisoners played by a cast including Brian Glover, Tony Osoba, Christopher Biggins, David Jason and Peter Vaughan.
Military Academy at West Point that his agency was concerned about âa roguesâ galleryâ of foreign organizations calling for violence against Americans.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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