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behind closed doors
Idioms and Phrases
In secret, privately. For example, The nominating committee always meets behind closed doors, lest its deliberations become known prematurely . Also see behind the scenes .Example Sentences
He comes in and he’s all, “This s—’s like wrestling — behind closed doors, it’s cool.”
“Our Republican colleagues, behind closed doors, are telling us, ‘Keep going, keep going, go do this,’ ” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, another leader of the effort to terminate the Canada tariffs, said at a press conference Tuesday.
Part of the trial was held behind closed doors.
In Riyadh the US-Ukraine talks began soon after nightfall on Sunday, behind closed doors in one of Saudi Arabia's many luxury establishments, with the Ukrainian delegation headed by the country's defence minister, Rustem Umerov.
Minutes after Szabo’s presentation, council members went behind closed doors to take a fresh look at the city’s contracts with a wide array of unionized public employees — police officers, firefighters, trash truck drivers, librarians, park maintenance workers and many others.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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