henhouse

Example Sentences

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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Therein lies what might be “Anniversary’s” biggest warning: Don’t let the fox into the henhouse, even if it seems rude not to.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

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

Then I put my gloves on and got a trowel and kind of scraped the chicken poop off the floor of the henhouse into a bucket and dumped it in the blackberry bushes.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones