He said you're a public menace, and that nobody can tell what you'll get into next.
And, as a poet once said, stupidity carried beyond a certain point becomes a public menace.
The public menace afoot was great enough without her adding to it.
"In my opinion, you're a public menace and your father should be haled into court for not keeping you under better control!"
I think the lot of you are a damned public menace.
In this area, though, nonsense is a public menace.
But there was also a standing government reward for destroying a public menace.
Tobacco was now being cast as a public menace, not as a private choice.
If he believed me he'd shut us down as a public menace this very day.
He knew he'd be lucky to get a hear- ing before being locked up as a public menace.