backstairs gossip.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : backstairs gossip.    From Dictionary.com. 

The road to eminence lay by the "backstairs," the atmosphere of which he could not endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Fools, Volume 1] Reference

PILGRIM: And any backstairs pressure, perhaps, to keep him out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference

It marks the spot where the backstairs go down into the Dark Land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphans of Chaos] Reference

Houst — a ridiculous name! — fit only for a backstairs romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

He looked like the cape that rustles on the backstairs of Paradise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]

Perhaps Owen Yorkshire's backstairs was the lift to the fifth floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

But Amy was already half way up the backstairs and paused to make a face at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers] Reference

There was a backstairs at the end of the corridor, leading to apartments in the old wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Tower]

What is it about their times with their beaux that the maids titter over on the backstairs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Lover]

And the situation was finally resolved only by what probably was some backstairs bargaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [America Afire] Reference

On her way down the backstairs she says she heard Lois Dunlap's second ring and went to answer it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder at Bridge] Reference

He dressed and glanced at his baggage, decided to abandon it He walked down the backstairs, out the back way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Of The Galaxy]

"Odds are that we have more than one in the area, unless there's a backstairs way for them to run up that cliff.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

I think the servants felt an obscure pride that somebody their master's age should have a backstairs squeeze at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Garden of Iden] Reference

In the meantime he would find out by means of some legal backstairs intelligence department exactly what was expected of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marazan]

"He wasn't groom of the backstairs to England's queen for nothing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life] Reference

Of the man who invented the backstairs waist and he sank with the leaky boat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

And the man who invented the backstairs waist, he groaned in his swollen throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

It's time to stop creeping around the backstairs and to come clean about your true feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

The North Briton first recommended me for an employment, and has now given me interest -. it the backstairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Unluckily, just as I was thinking this, Belinda made her appearance through a door leading on to the backstairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Home] Reference

'When I step down, my successor will be chosen by the British people at the ballot box, not by some grubby backstairs stitch-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

"I will take you up the backstairs: but I must bandage your eyes first; for I never allow anybody to see those backstairs of mine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water-Babies] Reference