Trojan horse

noun

Definition of Trojan horsenext
as in Potemkin village

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  1. Potemkin village
  2. fig leaf
  3. shield
  4. screen
  5. blind
Noun
  • But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The resort reproduces an ancient Apulian town and farmhouse in a project that some locals have likened to a Mediterranean Potemkin village.
    Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
Definition of Potemkin village
Noun
  • The countertop acts as the bar, with the silver cylinders housing opening flavors: gingerbread; an almost savory fig leaf, oolong, and prune; mellow sorbets.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
  • With the insurgents holding out for a settlement only on their own terms, Washington would then be forced to choose between a weak agreement providing a fig leaf for its abandonment of the country, a total failure of negotiations, and the indefinite engagement of U.S. combat troops.
    Ronald E. Neumann, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2012
Definition of fig leaf
Noun
  • To the south of the extensive snow shield, a strip of damaging ice will build up on trees and power lines, potentially knocking out electricity to millions of people from central Kansas to West Virginia Sunday into Monday.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In the Manhattan fire, Gaffney used a removed door as a shield to move through a raging fire to find a pregnant woman and a child, who were both unconscious.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of shield
Noun
  • The show is set to return to screens this year, though an exact release date is still to be announced.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Peter Jackson and his team brought Middle-earth to the screen and, in the process, set a standard for live-action fantasy, blockbuster epics, and adaptations of big works of fiction.
    Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of screen
Noun
  • The whole sequence took us like two to three days and this part of it was about a day of playing with the windshield wipers and these blinds.
    Yolanda Machado, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Close all curtain or blinds at night to prevent any drafts.
    Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of blind
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