When someone says "He's got a trojan horse." what does that mean?

Question

I don't mean the computer virus. It's a metaphor.

Answer 1

OMG! He's got a virus!

Answer 2

I've never heard that phrase before.  I have heard, "That was a trojan horse situation" or something along those lines.  They were referring to the Trojan horse that was built during the Trojan War.  The Greek soldiers hid inside, left the horse at the gates of Troy as a "peace offering", the Trojans fell for it, pulled the horse inside the gates and then the Greeks leapt out at night and killed everyone.  So when someone says, 'he was handed a trojan horse,' they probably mean that he get handed a false idea or token of trust and then was betrayed.

Could also mean condoms, haha (ie, "He's got some trojans" which are a brand of condoms).

Answer 3

It's when you use something that seems perfectly inocent to hide your true intentions, to trick someone.

The expression is taken from the story of the war of Troy. The Greeks built a big wooden horse and sent it to the Trojans as a peace offering. It was meant to be burned as a gift to their Gods. But when darkness fell on the city, and everyone went to bed, an army of Greeks came out of the horse and took the city. It was an ambush.

Nowadays when the expression is used, it means that someone is trying to trick you, or set you up, or otherwise fool you in some way or another.

Answer 4

A devious sexual act whereby the male pokes a small hole in the tip of the condom before intercourse. Based on the idea of the wooden trojan horse where all the men escaped from the horse once inside.

OR

Women who believe their boyfriends are cheating on them do that... so if they are... they get the ***** pregnant

Answer 5

It means he has an ulterior motive for doing something.

In ancient history, the Greek trojans attacked Troy for many years without success.  Finally, they constructed a huge horse (a Trojan horse) in which many Greek soldiers could hide. They presented the horse as a gift to the people of Troy saying that they (the Greeks) were retreating from the battle. The people of Troy accepted the gift and, later that night, the soldiers exited the horse and attacked Troy from the inside.

More information on this can be found at:

www.pantheon.org/articles/t/trojan_hor...

Answer 6

An old horse?

Naa, probably condoms. There is a brand called Trojan. Kind of a sneaky name?

Answer 7

Condoms