backstairs
bak sterz
- n a second staircase at the rear of a building
- s secret and sly or sordid
backstairs gossip
his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard
backstairs intimacies
- Leger worked in a semisecret office up a backstairs in the Quai d'Orsay.
- Because what we're talking about are the backstairs crawling putzes who shouldn't be in the press section in the first place, and are contributing to the larger process of regular .
- The Assembly therefore had to elect a President last week, chose Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, who played an important backstairs role in promoting the Hoare .