"Surely a clever thief could have stolen the jewels without running his head into a noose."
When police stations were looted, the clever thieves went for the files.
A clever thief would have no difficulty with a thing like that.
On top of that, he was the cleverest thief.
And he is a clever thief, a master thief.
I deal with clever thieves all the time.
The clever thief had a profound distrust of things that came about by sheer chance.
A clever thief, stealing the document, would substitute a similar envelope stuffed with blank paper.
Plenty of people say he's a clever little thief.
"You always said you were the cleverest thief of all Chrosanthe."