backstairs influence

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  • Backstairs — Back stairs , Backstair Back stair , a. Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip. Syn: clandestine, cloak and dagger, hugger mugger, hush hush, on the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • backstairs — adjective (only before noun) secret and probably unfair: backstairs influence …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Backstair — Backstairs Back stairs , Backstair Back stair , a. Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip. Syn: clandestine, cloak and dagger, hugger mugger, hush hush, on the …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wire pulling — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine intrigues, artifice, backscratching, backstairs influence, behind the scenes influence, cabal, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connections, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • back stairs — 1. stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants. 2. a means of intrigue. [1620 30] * * * back stairs, 1. airs in the back part of a house, used especially for deliveries or by servants. 2. Figurative. a private, secret, or underhanded… …   Useful english dictionary

  • back|stairs — back stairs, 1. airs in the back part of a house, used especially for deliveries or by servants. 2. Figurative. a private, secret, or underhanded method or course. back|stairs «BAK STAYRZ», adjective. 1. secret and underhanded: »... backstairs… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Pitt, William, the Younger — (1759–1806) British statesman and prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06). The son of William Pitt, he entered Parliament in 1781 and served as chancellor of the Exchequer (1782–83). He was appointed prime minister in 1783 and undertook reforms that… …   Universalium

  • lobbying — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine intrigues, allurement, backscratching, backstairs influence, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, connections, conning, deals, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, games, hortation, inducement,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • connections — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine intrigues, agnate, ancestry, backstairs influence, blood, blood relation, blood relative, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, consanguinean, deals, distaff side, distant relation, enate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • deal — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine intrigues, abatement of differences, accommodation, accord, act, act on, adjustment, administer, affair, afford, agreement, align, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allowance, amount, apportion, arrangement …   Moby Thesaurus

  • game — Synonyms and related words: Animalia, Boston, Byzantine intrigues, Earl of Coventry, Monopoly, Olympic games, Olympics, Ping Pong, Pit, Polish bank, Rugby, Russian bank, Scrabble, acquiescent, action, adventurous, agreeable, aim, alacritous, all… …   Moby Thesaurus


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