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Examples of backstairs
backstairs
Yet Smiley misses no conversational nuance, no backstairs Whitehall intrigue.
From the time.com
What his picture hints is that the 20th century had a backstairs connection to the 19th.
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Backstairs maneuvers, as well as front-parlor debates, shape a campaign.
From the time.com
Then you'd run down the backstairs, boot the door open and eight scraggly punk kids would run in.
From the guardian.co.uk
Will this happen or will the IMF job be subject to the usual mix of carve up, power politics and backstairs intrigue?
From the guardian.co.uk
When Davis tried to flee down the apartment's backstairs, Fusi allegedly continued to fire, striking him multiple times.
From the bostonherald.com
As Ali was guided out of the stadium, Evans, overcome with emotion stood on the venue's backstairs and sobbed uncontrollably for five minutes.
From the ocregister.com
But Hare wouldn't be Hare if he didn't quickly home in on murky geopolitical manoeuvring and the influence of a backstairs establishment culture.
From the guardian.co.uk
Given this backstairs acrimony it is hardly a surprise when the divorce further isolates Margaret from the simple life in Balmoral and Buckingham.
From the time.com
- A second staircase at the rear of a building
- Backstair: secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
