Trojan Horse – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png Trojan Horse – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Interesting Words and Expressions – Trojan Horse https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/interesting-words-and-expressions-trojan-horse/ Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:58:32 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1231 trojanhorse

The expression Trojan Horse is used to describe a person or thing that is used to trick an enemy in order to achieve a secret purpose. This expression is also used in programming to describe a computer program that seems to behelpful but that s, in fact, designed to destroy data.

Origin: from the story in which the ancient Greeks hid inside a hollow wooden statue of a horse in order to enter the city of their enemies, Troy.

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