backstairs是什么意思？

backstairs

英[ˈbæksteəz] 美[ˈbæksterz]

• n. 后楼梯，侧面楼梯；

例句

• He has got the post, but he got it by backstairs influence. 他得到了那个职位, 但他是用不正当的手段得到的.
• Some of us backstairs crowd thought he was callous about Missy. 我们当中的一些仆人认为,他对米丝太无情.
• backstairs deals between politicians 政客之间的幕后交易

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a second staircase at the rear of a building
• Adjective
  1. secret and sly or sordid;
  "backstairs gossip""his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard"backstairs intimacies""furtive behavior"