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Old 19-Nov-2006, 17:47
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Default Re: fellow passengers

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Or 'the people in my party'. Beware of a false friend in this area: 'fellow traveller' has nothing to do with travel. Perhaps a Chinese speaker would like to guess what it means.
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Oh well - maybe I'm wrong. As the expression 'fellow traveller' first came to prominence in Chines political histories of the revolution, I guessed it was a Chinese idiom; maybe it was just an expression dreamed up by the translator.

'Fellow traveller' - someone who shares a discredited political viewpoint

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