Translation of "Bock zum gärtner" in English

In other words, we are entrusting the care of the sheep to the wolf.

But we can hardly expect the fox to guard the chickens.

The old goat has turned into the tender gardener.

Putting Danny back there is like putting a fox in a hen house!

We've got the fox watching the henhouse here.

In other words, it essentially accepts that the wolf can guard the sheep.

The goat made hundreds of thousands of gardeners.

World Environment Day: Green Economy – setting the fox to keep the geese?

They did not say however that this would set the fox to keep the geese.

This Parliament's concern is that wolves should be put in charge of the sheep, so to speak.

We also stress the need to comply with the forgotten system of community preferences, not in favour of protectionism but to encourage it as an economic activity for utilizing resources.

And then perhaps everyone will stop bandying about arguments which are asking for trouble!

I made the provocative comment that this is a bit like giving sticks of dynamite to a pyromaniac.

That it should be the European police authority Europol - which has its own interest in data for combating terror - that will monitor compliance with data protection rules and the actual existence of suspicion of terror, is putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.

Anyone who in such a situation calls for more liberalisation, fewer controls and nothing but measures to, and I quote, 'ensure that confidence is regained among investors' is asking for trouble.

I have no doubts as to her skills, not least because her appointment would be a case of ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’.

Having set the wolf to guard the lambs, it is up to the High Representative to monitor compliance with the agreement.

I wish him well and I welcome your nomination, but the term 'poacher turned gamekeeper' comes to mind in relation to European matters.

Similarly, at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bush appointed in the person of Harvey Pitt a fox to guard the chickens - until public outrage forced Pitt's resignation.

All the fiddling and cheating that has been going in Brazilian banks in the last ten years alone can only be de scribed as criminal.

Just as there is no point in setting the fox to keep the geese, so there is no point in putting agricultural reform in the hands of the Presidents of the farmers' organizations and the Conservatives.