by the back door

by the back door
using secret or dishonest methods to achieve something, and hoping that people do not realize what is happening

They managed to sneak the legislation in through the back door.

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by/through the back door idiom
in an unfair or indirect way

He used his friends to help him get into the civil service by the back door.

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