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
Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, but madam," said the smith, a little softened, "don't you think it a sin and a shame to turn informer?"
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah
To turn snitch, or snitcher; to turn informer.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
