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/trˈoʊdʒən hɔrs/ Listen

Trojan horse

noun

A subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst. Synonym: fifth column.

A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful. Synonym: trojan. "When he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse"

A large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War. Synonym: Wooden Horse.

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"Trojan horse" Quotes from Famous Books

... could oppose but feeble resistance. The English in the Dutch colony, though they had sworn allegiance, would probably join their countrymen. "To invite them," Governor Stuyvesant said, "to aid us, would be bringing the Trojan horse within our walls." After much anxious deliberation, it was decided to enlist a force of seventy men, "silently and without beat of drum," and to lay in supplies ...

— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam • John S. C. Abbott

... mealy-mouthed for the needs of the hour. I think they're a little soft on Communism. And what about the race mongrelizers?" spluttered Sowles. "Trying to subvert America with an Afro-Asian Trojan Horse!" ...

— Telempathy • Vance Simonds

Words linked to "Trojan horse" : social unit, unit, fifth column, Greece, Ellas, malevolent program, saboteur, fifth columnist, trojan, Hellenic Republic, figure, Wooden Horse