smoke-filled room

[ smohk-fild, -fild ]

/ ˈsmoʊkˌfɪld, -ˈfɪld /

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noun

a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.

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Origin of smoke-filled room

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby smoke-filled room

smoke dome, smoke-dried, smoked rubber, smoke-dry, smoke-eater, smoke-filled room, smoke-free, smokeho, smokehouse, smokejack, smokejumper

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The other is to revert primaries to proverbial smoke-filled rooms in which party insiders choose who runs in the general.
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.
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Instead, spa hotels filled up with over 30,000 refugees from the war-troubled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
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Mr. Bachner stayed because he realized the city is filled with artisans and the possibilities fascinated him.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Buses filled with cops from the 84th Precinct, where Liu had worked.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

Cultural definitions for smoke-filled room

smoke-filled room

A popular expression used to describe a place where the political wheeling and dealing of machine bosses (see machine politics) is conducted. The image originated during the Republican presidential nominating convention of 1920, in which Warren G. Harding emerged as a dark horse candidate.

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