smóke-filled róom【정치】 (정치적 협상이 이루어지는) 막후 협상실

smoke filled room 관용구

a new broom sweeps clean

an employee works hard on the first day or two, make a good impression "After my first day working for Grandfather, he said, ""A new broom sweeps clean."""

boys in the backroom

a group of men making decisions behind the scenes The boys in the backroom told us that we must close down the factory as soon as possible.

elbow room

room to move among people, space in a crowd On the streets of Hong Kong there wasn't much elbow room.

make room

create a space, move out of the way Please make room so Miss Munro can walk to her car. Move, please.

make room for someone or something

arrange space for He made room for the new computer in the spare room.

new broom sweeps clean

a new person makes many changes We discovered the truth to the expression "a new broom sweeps clean" when our new boss changed everything in our organization.

the room is so small you have to go outside turn a

"the room is very small; so small you could barely swing a cat" It's not a large apartment. The bathroom is so small I have to to go outside to turn around.

shrooms

psilocybin/psilocin, mushrooms; a kind of hallucinogenic mushroom

make room for

1． arrange space for为…腾出空地
We can easily make room for you at this table．我们很容易就能在这张桌上为你腾出位置。
2．be replaced by被…所替代
It's in the very nature of things that the old eventually makes room for the new．旧事物终将被新事物所代替，这是必然的。

room and board

Idiom(s): room and board

Theme: LODGING

food to eat and a place to live; the cost of food and lodging. (Fixed order.)
• That college charges too much for room and board.
• How much is your room and board?

smoke-filled room

A secluded, clandestine abode hidden from the ability of the public. Usually refers to deals and behavior fabricated in business and politics, and generally implies a amount of ambiguous belief or scruples. What we're advertent now is that the active of the studios absitively in a smoke-filled allowance about 60 years ago to apparatus behavior that would ensure no competitors would intrude on their advantageous market. People are acceptable added balked that our absolute lives are dictated by a able few in smoke-filled apartment in Washington.Learn more: room

a smoke-filled room

COMMON If addition says that a political or business accommodation is fabricated in a smoke-filled room, they beggarly that it is fabricated by a baby accumulation of bodies in a clandestine meeting, rather than in a added autonomous or accessible way. We're not activity to see a acknowledgment to the smoke-filled room, in which a few ministers and aggregation administration fabricated all the decisions. Note: This was aboriginal acclimated to accredit to the apartment in the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago area Warren Harding was called as the Republican presidential applicant in 1920. Learn more: room

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rough-and-tumble rough-and-ready rough sb up rope sb into rooted to the spot room and board Rome wasn't built in a day rolling in roll sth back roll one's sleeves up roll out the red carpet for a sleepwalk a slew of (something) a slice of life a slice of the cake a slip of a a slip of a boy, girl, etc. a slip of the pen a slip of the tongue a slip of the tongue/pen a slippery slope a slow burn a slue of (something) a sly dog a smack in the face a small cog in a large machine a small cog in a large wheel a small fortune a small frog in a big pond a smart alec a smart alec/aleck a smart cookie a smash hit a smidge a smidgen a smile is worth a thousand words a smoke-filled room a smokescreen a smoking gun a smooth operator a snack a snake in (one's) bosom a snake in the grass a snap a sneak preview a snow job a snowball's chance in hell a sob story a sobering thought a soft answer turneth away wrath a soft answer turns away wrath a soft berth a soft option a soft spot a soft touch a soft/an easy touch a somebody a sometime thing a song in (one's) heart a song in your heart a sop to Cerberus a sore head

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