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snapper up

noun

  1. a person who snaps up bargains, etc


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This is unseen by the average snapper-up of old clocks, or when seen not understood.

It simply means a thief on a grand scale, something more than "a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," or petty-larceny rascal.

As to me, I am a mere legal Autolycus, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of evidence.

He was a diligent "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," who would never set even the Manzanares on fire.

Autolycus, aw-tol′i-kus, n. a thief: a snapper up of unconsidered trifles: a plagiarist.

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