trojan : Idioms & Phrases

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trojan horse

  • noun a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
    fifth column.
  • noun a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful
    trojan.
    • the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm
    • when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse
  • noun a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
    Wooden Horse.
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trojan war

  • noun (Greek mythology) a great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground
    • the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad
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