snatch-and-run

Updated: July 20, 2026

It would be blatant exaggeration to call that shape a lion. It he had been one. He was now a walking hat-rack. Never have you seen such a lion. Never had the jackal seen such a lion, even; and he had done business of the snatch-and-run order with lions all his life.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild