turn informer
Example Sentences
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Shannon’s description of the ruthlessly transactional Le Roux recalibrating his new reality — “eyes twinkling like a computer rebooting” — to turn informer aboard the plane from Liberia, is priceless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2019
When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'd very gladly leave you here to your fate, you fat bungler!" said he, with irrepressible bitterness, "if it weren't that you'd turn informer on us.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
Geoffrey Pole, a younger brother, learned that the blow was coming in time to turn informer.
From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes
