smoke-filled room

smoke-filled room
\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷-\ noun
: a hotel room in which a small group of politicians carry on negotiations

meet in a smoke-filled room to decide on … men and measures — D.D.McKean

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/smohk"fild', -fild"/
a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
[1915-20]

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smoke-filled room UK [ˌsməʊk fɪld ˈruːm] US [ˌsmoʊk fɪld ˈrum] noun [countable] [singular smoke-filled room plural smoke-filled rooms] mainly journalism
a place where powerful people make important decisions
Thesaurus: places of a particular typehyponym general words for location and placesynonym

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smoke-filled room «SMOHK FIHLD»,
U.S. a room in which influential politicians meet in private, especially at a political convention, to plan strategy or to negotiate.
╂[in allusion to a hotel room in Chicago at which the decision to nominate Warren G. Harding as the Republican presidential candidate in 1920 was supposed to have been reached]

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used to refer to political bargaining or decision-making that is conducted privately by a small group of influential people rather than more openly or democratically

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noun, pl ⋯ rooms [count]
: a room or place where secret decisions are made by a small group of powerful people

political deals made in smoke-filled rooms


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