henhouse
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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
It is relevant because trusting the very agency that has been responsible for the myriad problems plaguing Arizona’s death-penalty system is a classic instance of letting the fox guard the henhouse.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
Public outcry around the report likens a Pentagon self-investigation to charging the fox to guard the henhouse.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2024
“It’s the fox guarding the henhouse and they should not be at the table when it’s governments who have the jurisdiction to regulate,” Su said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Not only had Ma Charles’s house grown, but the henhouse and the chicken run had also expanded.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
And there’s always the frightening prospect that wild birds could carry the virus into the henhouses needed in vaccine production.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
It has infiltrated big commercial poultry farms and tiny backyard henhouses, affecting 72 million farmed birds in the United States alone, according to the Department of Agriculture.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
While you can buy premade henhouses for as little as a few hundred dollars, most are flimsy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Giving chickens access to pasture rather than confining them to henhouses is considered more humane treatment.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
Finding them was rather like an Easter egg hunt, because many of the hens preferred to lay under bushes, rather than inside the henhouses.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
