make out like a bandit

So if no one gets sick for the month, the hospital makes out like a bandit.

She always made out like a bandit - and I got a t-shirt.

That suited Pierre just fine; he would make out like a bandit.

"Listen, even a Starbucks would make out like a bandit in this place.

He must make out like a bandit, dancing to a song that he wrote, huh?

She makes out like a bandit during Secretary's Week."

Nicole had made out like a bandit.

The kid makes out like a bandit."

"In the short to medium term, the U.S. makes out like a bandit," he said.

Invested heavily in real estate in central Oregon and made out like a bandit in the recent boom.

"Kala'uun is the one place my father figures he didn't make out like a bandit.

Two ice vendors troll for business, and the corner bodega makes out like a bandit selling water, soda and chips.

Montbank made out like a bandit--but without the compromise, the mining operations were all shut down and idle, anyway.

Then some carpetbagger comes along and decides to cheat, steal, hoodwink, make out like a bandit, and give an innocent business and its people a bad name.

"What happened is that Lilly made out like a bandit," said Neil Sweig, an analyst with Southeast Research Partners.

But the real problem is where there is a disconnect, where shareholder return is low or negative, but the C.E.O. makes out like a bandit.

"Lehman made out like a bandit," said Darcy Stacom, a real estate broker at Cushman & Wakefield.

"Computer Associates should make out like a bandit in this merger," said Charles E. Taylor Jr., an analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities.

I'm just guessing that Wayne is going to make out like a bandit in selling the club, which is what he does - buy low, sell high, and no long commitment to people or product.

And if one mark of a fair deal is that no one group thinks it is making out like a bandit, then this latest in a long line of attempts to buy the company fits the bill.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky made out like a bandit when his party had some power; so did "the office of the Russian president" and the Peace and Unity Party, both headed by the unmentionable Putin.

And while it's fun to imagine that you'll be able to make out like a bandit some day with that crazy, million-dollar electric pants idea you've been kicking around, the only reliable way to plan for retirement is to start saving.

The third Peter Heiman went into business with his father's backing, formed a trucking company, and made out like a bandit during the last half of the "70s and the first half of the "80s, back when oil was king.

Hearing of the $60 million estimate, Michael Greene, the president of the academy, said, "It makes us wonder why exactly it is we're coming here and losing all this money when New York is making out like a bandit."

"Did we ever tell you about the time that Bob Gaynor was working on 'The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas,' with STEPHEN BALDWIN, who was running around in that funny little leather outfit and still making out like a bandit?")