poacher turned gamekeeper

It's true that the Arab League (poacher turned gamekeeper) is worse than useless.

Talk about a poacher turned gamekeeper.

I have no doubts as to her skills, not least because her appointment would be a case of 'poacher turned gamekeeper'.

Poacher turned gamekeeper they say.

Rugby's poacher turned gamekeeper, while having twice declined England bench selection, has never lightly turned his back.

The poacher turned gamekeeper.

So, for the long period before the poacher turned gamekeeper, Morgan used Shark Bay as his sallyport.

I wish him well and I welcome your nomination, but the term 'poacher turned gamekeeper' comes to mind in relation to European matters.

Russell said Ngatia was a classic case of poacher turned gamekeeper; before he saw the light he had speared 13 lions and nine rhinos.

Apparently a poacher turned gamekeeper, Stuart sees no conflict in having switched from ICI's fertiliser division to the organic field.

The UK dealt with Makarious, Kenyatta and other poachers turned gamekeepers, why such problems with Adams?

I've tended to assume that Cameron wanted Coulson because he knew where some of NI's bodies were buried, on the poacher turned gamekeeper principle.

She was manned by a volunteer crew and commanded by Cdr Godfrey Herbert, an experienced submariner in the role of "poacher turned gamekeeper".

Sherden, a business consultant, is a poacher turned gamekeeper: it was in the course of doing business forecasting that he came to doubt the validity of all predictions.

- Davie Galloway, security guard, he said for the umpteenth time, shaking his head, - ah've heard aboot the poacher turned gamekeeper, but this is ridiculous.

While the Observer tagged Earnshaw as poacher turned gamekeeper, he extolled the virtues of compromise to the Student BMJ.

Walsh, as fund-raising co-ordinator, and Hayling, as 'poacher turned gamekeeper'(as Everett described him), had been sounding out potential 'movement' investors for months.

The farm worker is as likely as not to be found standing shoulder to shoulder with his employer defending the farm and its game - a literal case of poacher turned gamekeeper.

Although the Museu da Baleia (Whale Museum) shows a video of a whale hunt in 1978, the owner is the epitome of a poacher turned gamekeeper.

A major factor was that the two famous left-wing union leaders, both to some degree poachers turned gamekeepers, Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones, were now removed from the scene through retirement.

I make the point that he is in a real sense poacher turned gamekeeper, particularly, given his prominent and influential role in controlling huge amounts of research funds and deciding which areas of scientific research they should go to.

Do not be over-impressed by glossy prospectuses or smooth-talking heads (said the poacher turned gamekeeper) - although in a junior school the head is a really important figure - but rather look at the faces of the children as you walk around.

RWE Entsorgung, which specializes in incineration, sewage sludge treatment, and energy and resource recovery, is the waste management subsidiary of RWE, the West German power company that, as Mr. Owen said, is "an environmental poacher turned gamekeeper."

To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point, which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again, whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power.