| 单词 | poacher turned gamekeeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoacher turned gamekeeper b. In the proverbial expression an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper (and variants). So poacher turned gamekeeper (chiefly British): a person who now preserves the interests he or she previously attacked; similarly gamekeeper turned poacher. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > one who changes opinion wheeler1836 poacher turned gamekeeper1891 mind-changer1931 gamekeeper turned poacher1978 1818 Ohio Repository 8 Jan. 4/2 As he wanted Ceylon to round off his number of villas and country seats in Asia, John [Bull] after protecting Nick Frog's farm, and putting the old poacher Louis Baboon in possession, in order to diminish his trouble also, took the little country seat in an island near Africa, called Mauritis [sic].] 1858 Times 19 Aug. 8/6 To put it on the lowest ground, as the old saying has it, ‘An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper’. 1891 Times 26 Feb. 7/5 The poacher turned gamekeeper could not be more fully alive to the responsibilities of his position than Mr. Wyndham in the character of [etc.]. 1945 Times 4 Aug. 5/2 Mr. Aneurin Bevan at the Ministry of Health..is conspicuously the poacher turned gamekeeper. 1970 V. Canning Great Affair iii. 27 What the Church needed, possibly, was a good leavening of sinners in its ministry, on the principle that poachers make the best gamekeepers. 1978 Broadbent 27 Mar. 4/2 Stuart Wilson, former joint MD of Yorkshire Television..has been arguing with the ferocity of gamekeeper turned poacher against ITV's intended inroads into the fourth channel. 1999 A. Shipton Groovin' High v. 75 Jonah Jones, a poacher turned gamekeeper if ever there was one after he left the wildness of Stuff Smith for the orthodoxy of Cab. < as lemmas |
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