boys in the back room

boys in the back room
the boys in the back room & the backroom boys
Fig. any private group of men who make decisions, usually political decisions. (See also smoke-filled room.) •

The boys in the back room picked the last presidential candidate.

The backroom boys have decided too many things in the past. Their day is over.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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