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What are dole people? | Detract from someone's argument
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People up to no good #1 (permalink) Sun Jan 29, 2006 15:38 pm   People up to no good		  
What does this mean?

"We come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good..."
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Nightbirds #2 (permalink) Sun Jan 29, 2006 16:27 pm   Nightbirds		  
cooliegirly wrote:
What does this mean?

"We come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good..."

Hello cooliegirly,

Here is another way of saying this:

We often think that people who live more at night behave badly or do harmful things.

Night dwellers are also called: night owls (I'm one!), nighthawks, nightbirds or night prowlers.
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People up to no good #3 (permalink) Mon Jan 30, 2006 0:38 am   People up to no good		  
To be up to no good means to be planning to do something bad. Maybe they're looking around for a crime to commit or something like that.
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People up to no good #4 (permalink) Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:18 am   People up to no good		  
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Yes, they could be up to something.
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