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Behind-the-scenes

adjective

Designed and carried out secretly or confidentially. Synonyms: sub-rosa, under-the-table. "Has their under-the-table backing"

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"Behind-the-scenes" Quotes from Famous Books

... when she whistled for [her accustomed audience of] the Wheezy and her friends. That is until the hectic morning when she obeyed a summons to rehearsal in the empty, auditorium—Felicia always says that the rehearsal was worse than May Day night! So too were the behind-the-scenes confusions and the nervous moments while the makeup artist dabbled her cheeks with rouge and pencilled her eyes—that left her limp ...

— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke

Words linked to "Behind-the-scenes" : covert, sub-rosa, under-the-table