We should hire the computer hacker to design computer security systems. An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper — c 1390 CHAUCER Physician’s Tale 1. 83 A theef of venysoun, that hath forlaft His likerousnesse [depravity] and al his olde craft, Kan kepe a forest best of any man. 1695 T. FULLER Church Hist. Britain IX. iii. Alwayes set a to catch a ; and the… … Proverbs new dictionary
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gamekeeper — see an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper … Proverbs new dictionary
poacher — see an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper … Proverbs new dictionary
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