Portuguese
quinta coluna A subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst.
Portuguese
cavalos de troia Catalan
cavall de troia A large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War.
A thing or situation which appears to be good when it is received or experienced but is found to be bad.
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Examples for "poisoned chalice"
Examples for "poisoned chalice"
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So the poisoned chalice was handed to George Tenet-theonly choice remaining.
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Or, perhaps I should commiserate with you for inheriting a poisoned chalice.
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But this year, it has become a poisoned chalice of sorts.
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It was something of a poisoned chalice for a young writer.
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Suddenly Shorten's poisoned chalice turned into a tall drink of water.
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The trojan horse is called Mac Defender.
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And there are still those who back Mr Maduro over what they say is a trojan horse in the form of humanitarian aid.
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First, it used a Windows trojan horse piece of malware to infect computers, then hijacked their web browsers to access saved passwords and cookies.
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Intelligence officers in Berlin say they discovered " trojan horse" bugs on computers in the chancellery, as well as the foreign, economics and research ministries.
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But in recent months, OS X adoption has been rising, and similarly the number of threats (like last year's MacDefender trojan horse) have been rising.
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Clear, self-evident truths are often a Trojan horse for contentious, hidden ones.
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Riyadh certainly views the Houthi movement as a Trojan horse for Tehran.
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The Trojan Horse-itwas the Bronze Age version of a car bomb-
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The Trojan horse may also download additional components to an infected Mac.
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For Apple, though, WeChat may turn out to be a Trojan horse.
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I get the CIA connection, I get the whole Trojan horse thing.
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The gypsies breed Trojan horses and sell the offspring to young girls.
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So, what cybersecurity lessons might we learn today from the first Trojan Horse?
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I mean, those two certainly look harmless enough, but remember the Trojan horse.
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Common examples of malware include viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware.
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Now it is seen as a Trojan horse to unilateral independence.