turn informer
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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
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When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She did not therefore wish to ask me any questions or hear me explain who I was in the hearing of the tailor, who might turn informer.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)
"No," he thought, "no, Y�ssil is not going to turn informer!"
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb