A Person Who Changes Uniforms During Wartime To Appear As If They Are On Your Side. Could Also Be Someone Who's Not Really Your Friend But Are Only Trying To get Information For Your Enemy.
Co-Worker: Watch What You Say In Front Of Him. Because I Think It Gets Right Back To The Bosses Ears.
A Person Who Changes Uniforms During Wartime To Appear As If They Are On Your Side. Could Also Be Someone Who's Not Really Your Friend But Are Only Trying To get Information For Your Enemy.
Co-Worker: Watch What You Say In Front Of Him. Because I Think It Gets Right Back To The Bosses Ears.
Traitor, Coward, Snitch
Someone who appears to take your side in an argument, then supports the opposing side. Could also be considered a "Traitor", because he may give privileged inside information learned due to his preceived allegiance to the opposing side. (Word comes from changing the appears of your uniform or turning your coat inside out to appear to be on a different side.)
That "turn-coat" told them our strategy to win in court.
Be sure to not let the "turn-coat" overhear our plan of attack.
Did you see that "turn-coat" run when the fight started getting rough?
a political opportunist who changes ideology with each newopinion poll and survey. A turncoat will betray his principles, if he had any, admit to having lied about previously stated principles and in general will say anything to get elected. Usually turncoats are serial politicians whose primary goal is to further their own political career.
Turncoat Florida Governor Charlie Crist, whose vertiginous politics change with the wind, in early 2010 changed his stripes from solidly lifelong conservative Republican, to free-thinking independent, now to Democrat all in the span of a few months.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).