fly on the wall
An unseen observer or listener, as in I wish I could be a fly on the wall when she tells him she's pregnant. [Mid-1900s]
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How to use fly on the wall in a sentence
Since 1984, Newsweek has made a cottage industry out of its fly-on-the-wall post-election coverage of presidential campaigns.
He could play the fly-on-the-wall in Louis the Goon's life as long as he wanted.
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