poacher makes the best gamekeeper, an old

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poacher makes the best gamekeeper, an old proverbial saying, late 14th century, meaning that someone who has formerly taken part in wrongdoing knows best how to counter it in others (often used allusively in the form poacher turned gamekeeper).

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