fifth column

第五纵队,第五列,第五栏,第五专栏

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- : Franco sympathizers in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War: so called in allusion to a statement in 1936 that the insurgents had four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth column of sympathizers in the city ready to rise and betray it.

nounsecret or subversive group

Synonyms

But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.
Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.
Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
My two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.
Ordinarily the diazo appears a little earlier than the Widal reaction—about the fourth or fifth day—but it may be delayed.
In the next two days he re-wrote the twenty thousand, and on the fifth day he tore it into shreds and threw it to the winds.