Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house, coop, or shelter for fowls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house or shelter for fowls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small house or
hutch forchickens or, more specifically,hens to live in.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a farm building for housing poultry
Etymologies
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Examples
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You are saying that the fox guarding the henhouse is better than no guard at all.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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You are saying that the fox guarding the henhouse is better than no guard at all.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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Who ever smelled the "pole cat in the henhouse" is correct.
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Toxic loans and toxic mortgages, the ones designed to extract the maximum amount of money from a customer before they are pushed off the cliff into default, are now under increased scrutiny because the current system of allowing the roosters to guard the henhouse is starting to tank the national economy.
Mortgage Reform Legislation Takes Center Stage | Impact Lab 2007
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And that allowed these two posing faux roosters to gain entry through the back door of the henhouse, which is probably how they gain entry anyway.
Think Progress » Virginians Buck Far-Right Policies Of McDonnell And Cuccinelli 2010
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I'm curious about the employees of financial products though ... usually the people saying we have to let the fox guard the henhouse are the people who weren't watching in the first place.
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Foxes in the henhouse is the rule, rather than the exception.
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I think having the fox guard the henhouse is a very bad idea.
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You see, among the little meadow and forest people there is no such thing as property rights, excepting in the matter of storehouses, and because these hens were alive, it didn't occur to Granny and Reddy that the henhouse was a sort of storehouse.
Old Granny Fox 1919
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I in addition to the foxes running the henhouse, that is.
unknown title 2009
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