Beyond this was a door which opened into a back-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

The Americans were furious at their allies 'back-room plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [How We Got to This Point] Reference

David was a back-room sidekick of Tony Blair for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miliband Vs. Miliband] Reference

There were back -- there were back-room attacks on Hillary Clinton.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2008] Reference

Paddy Green intends shortly to remove to a three-pair back-room in Little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841] Reference

We were admitted to a front-room up-stairs, and heard voices in the back-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Then Mr.P. struck a bargain for a back-room in the seventh story of the right-hand tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870] Reference

No doubt a lot of back-room arm-twisting and a lot of arguments behind the scenes going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference

The trader knew how to avoid detection because he used to work in back-room administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2008] Reference

HILL: Suddenly, he was connected to the big money and back-room politics many voters despise.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2008] Reference

With the race such a close race, with it a dead heat, would it come down to a back-room deal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2008] Reference

Blair was in the back-room, closeted with some gentleman, who soon left, and I was called in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

That sudden insight annoyed him enough that he quickly opened the back-room door and walked in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]

ORRIN HATCH (R), UTAH: Chicago style back-room buyoffs at the expense of the American taxpayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009] Reference

For years, there has been talk of back-room dealings involving quid pro quo votes in figure skating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2002] Reference

And what younger voters don't always know is that back-room dealing does accomplish things sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Farai Chideya: Nader May Attract Younger Voters - September 10, 2000] Reference

It will be remembered that, after bursting into the back-room with the declaration, "She's come back!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

This whole operation is carried on inside the house, in the back-room, as long as the land is flooded.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference

Sources say he is a back-room wheeler-dealer and knows how to deal with tribesmen and ethnic factions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007] Reference

At the same time I think the sense of victory has been dampened by the stories of these back-room deals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009] Reference

Steve Walk had as much technology in the back-room waiting for launch as he had live on the PatentMonkey site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Monkey Joins Deadpool, Only To Rise Again as Patents.com] Reference

A little back-room in a street in London is further removed from the noise, than a front room in a country town.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

They gathered under a massive tent here in Kabul today amid rumors of back-room deals and political strong-arming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squabbling Over The Next Step] Reference

Brown is the back-room guy who took over when the great con-man left the stage, just as the truth began to surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Some supply Internet pharmacies; others, back-room medical clinics catering to the growing illegal alien population.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2004] Reference

We rode to his house, and he went into the back-room by direction of his daughter while she and I talked in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference

Meantime an 11th-hour back-room custody deal delivers Michael ` s children to his mom, Katherine, just as she wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2009] Reference

The little back-room, kitchen, bedroom, studio, and parlor in one, plain and neat, had for them a kind of enchantment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

And it's really been replaced by seedy Chicago politics when you think about it, back-room deals that amount to bribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009] Reference

The state of degradation, humiliation, and pain of mind in which I sat in that dingy back-room is not to be described. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

When I became a candidate, Barbara was a great supporter, but she regarded me as a back-room girl while I worked for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

You know, you go in there, I guarantee you, everybody knows the kind of deals, the back-room deals the Clintons have made.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008] Reference

And the pork-barrel spending and corruption and behind -- back-room deals, without C-SPAN cameras as he promised, has gone on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010] Reference

The wretched boy was confined in a back-room which had no window or connection with the outside except through another apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference

He marched into a little back-room that he called his study, and I began to speculate upon the probable subject of our conference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

Image making and message crafting, enduring political arts once the back-room purview of a select few, are now in the public domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolution of the Online Commentariat] Reference

Madame Wang hastily took Tai-yü by the hand, and emerging by the door of the back-room, they went eastwards by the verandah at the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

This was the back-room, and opened into another of the same size, differing from the former in having no fire-place and being not lathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference