English Dictionary

rogues' gallery

名詞

広義 慣用表現

A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.

日本語の意味

犯罪者の写真一覧（捜査支援用） / 警察捜査において、被疑者の特定のために使用される犯罪者の写真集

The detective spread the old rogues' gallery on the table to see if any witness recognized a face.

刑事は、目撃者が顔を識別できるか確認するために、古い指名手配犯の顔写真一覧をテーブルに広げた。

意味（1）

A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.

When the policemen arrest a man . . . if there is good reason to suspect him, they take his picture before they let him go. . . . Then they put the picture up in the rogues' gallery among the others, where everybody who comes there can see it.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) Any group of lawbreakers or other disreputable characters.

The old staple of every demonstration: gully gully may shor hai, Congress Party chor hai—the cry goes up in every alley, Congress Party is a 'rogues' gallery—was very much in evidence.

意味（3）

(fiction) The set of supervillains associated with a particular superhero or comic book title.

rogues' galleries （ plural ）