0 someone whose behaviour is now the same as that he or she previously opposed:
With a bit of luck, we may receive some advice later from our poacher turned gamekeeper.
It is fascinating to see him giving the splendid impression of the poacher turned gamekeeper.
I am now in the position of poacher turned gamekeeper.
He has been called a poacher turned gamekeeper.
We are in the position of the poacher turned gamekeeper.
I have no doubts as to her skills, not least because her appointment would be a case of ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’.
It is rather less of judge and jury than perhaps poacher turned gamekeeper; and who better than a former employee to do that?
It is embarrassing to find oneself poacher turned gamekeeper.