Meaning of fox in the henhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone untrustworthy placed in a position of trust in which they will be harmful, damaging or detrimental for their own personal gain.

figuratively, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“While the Commissioner of Patents is normally expected to understand and to promote the patent system as a bulwark for promoting the U.S. economy, the current Commissioner is, in many ways, a fox in the henhouse, undertaking to destroy that which he was commissioned to protect and to strengthen.”

CEFR level