In Russian, the phrase как тать ночью (kak tat’ noch’yu) or “like a thief in the night” is widely used as an idiom in every-day life (“although few [modern speakers] would know its origin”) carrying the meaning of something that is done stealthily. The wording of the quote originated in the Russian Synodal Bible (publ. 1876). (Source: Reznikov 2020, p. 83f.)
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