Trojan horsenoun [ S ]
uk/ˌtrəʊ.dʒən ˈhɔːs/us/ˌtroʊ.dʒən ˈhɔːrs/literary a person or thing that joins and deceives a group or organization in order to attack it from the inside:
Older supporters have accused the new leadership of being a Trojan horse that will try to destroy the party from the inside.
also Trojan a computer program that has been deliberately designed to destroy information, or allow someone to steal it:
It's easier than you think to inadvertently download a malicious Trojan horse.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- plot
- plotter
- pretext
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- trap
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