"Sheep as a gardener" expression - translation please

[Pondlife]

One of my German colleagues has just used the expression "like having a sheep as a gardener" to describe someone else in a new role.

Obviously the implication is that the sheep will eat the flowers as well as the weeds/grass.

Is there an English equivalent?

[DimPrawn]

Yeah, fookwit.

HTH

[Churchill]

Yeah fookwit, it's fookwit!

HTH

ftfy

[doodab]

One of my German colleagues has just used the expression "like having a sheep as a gardener" to describe someone else in a new role.

Obviously the implication is that the sheep will eat the flowers as well as the weeds/grass.

Is there an English equivalent?

Chocolate Teapot?

[TimberWolf]

Interesting observation. Who can come up with the closest Anglo Saxon equivalent of Pondlife's interpretation?

A poor start with:

To set the wolf to keep the sheep

[shaunbhoy]

Who can come up with the closest Anglo Saxon equivalent of Pondlife's interpretation?

"Like putting alexei in charge of the catering"

[Pondlife]

"Like putting alexei in charge of the sofa procurement/hand gun legislation/stock market/women"

ftfy

[scooterscot]

Had something on a similar theme the other day... er it was, yes:

It's like a frog in yogurt it has to keep eating before it can rest.