VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Fifth column

Meaning:

refers to a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or collaborate with its enemies.

Examples:

  • These organizations play the same role the fifth column plays in war.
  • Which means that more than 63% of the votes for the fifth column were votes of protest or alien to the ELA.
  • I'm a part of the Fifth Column.
  • Man has given them many names—the fifth column.
  • Man has given them many names—the fifth column.
  • Man has given them many names-the fifth column.
  • Man has given them many names, the fifth column.
  • Man has given them many names--the fifth column.
  • What if they were a fifth column?
  • Think of us now, at this moment, as the vanguard, the fifth column.