snapper up

noun

a person who snaps up bargains, etc

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How to use snapper up in a sentence

This is unseen by the average snapper-up of old clocks, or when seen not understood.
Chats on Old Clocks | Arthur Hayden
It simply means a thief on a grand scale, something more than "a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," or petty-larceny rascal.
Rookwood | William Harrison Ainsworth
As to me, I am a mere legal Autolycus, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of evidence.
The Mystery of 31 New Inn | R. Austin Freeman
He was a diligent "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," who would never set even the Manzanares on fire.
Romantic Spain | John Augustus O'Shea
Autolycus, aw-tol′i-kus, n. a thief: a snapper up of unconsidered trifles: a plagiarist.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) | Various

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