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Originally Posted by vil  Hi teachers,
I wander, if I might put a sign of equality between the well known "Trojan horse" and the new for me term "stalking horse".
The ground meaning of the term "stalking horse" is "something used to cover one's true purpose.
According the Homer's Iliad, the Greeks built a large hollow wooden horse in which a small group of warriors were concealed. The other Greeks appeared to sail for home, leaving behind only the horse. Despite the warnings of Cassandra, the horse was taken within city walls. At night the Greeks returned; her companions crept out of the horse and opened the city gates, an Troja was destroyed. This brief description of the backstage manifest us that the two terms might be used interchangeable.
Would you help me to settle this question?
V. |
A Trojan horse is a quite common idiom, especially in a computer sense, being a bad thing made to look like something good.
I have never heard of a "stalking horse". Stalking means to walk quietly, tracking a prey. I don't see a horse as a hunter.