fellow traveller
Britishnoun
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a companion on a journey
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a non-Communist who sympathizes with Communism
Example Sentences
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One fellow traveller even suggested to me that jurors could string it out a bit because that way they would get a couple of days of free lunches.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
A fellow traveller, who identified himself as TheFatTrader on Twitter, said everyone on the Jersey flight had to get off while staff checked that the man had not left anything behind.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2019
When I tell Nicholls about my family tree, instead of warmly greeting me as a fellow traveller, he gazes stolidly into the middle distance.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2018
I think Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene both did so in the 1930s, and didn’t even mention in their books that the fellow traveller was there.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
There were only two more lunchers—Poirot’s fellow traveller MacQueen and his employer Mr. Ratchett.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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