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the boys in the back room

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the boys in the back room and the backroom boys
Fig. any private group of men who make decisions, usually political decisions. (See also .) 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.
See also: back, boy, room


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And his favourite pun was to take off film star Marlene Dietrich and sing "See what the boys in the back room will have, etc".
He also said that Dietrich ran off because she wanted to ``see what the boys in the back room would have.
You'll get a chance to hear some of those atmospheric songs again ( Falling in Love Again, The Boys in the Back Room, Lily Marlene ( but this time set in the context of Marlene's remarkable life.
 
 
 
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