smoke-filled room
smoke-filled room · smoke-filled rooms
A place where powerful people meet to decide a matter in secret, often of a political…A place where powerful people meet to decide a matter in secret, often of a political nature.
Meaning
2 senses(idiomatic)A place where powerful people meet to decide a matter in secret, often of a political nature.
Near-synonym: backroom (as a meeting place of crooked insiders)
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, filled, room.
Forms
plural: smoke-filled rooms| Singular | smoke-filled room |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsbackroom[insider]]s>