smoke-filled room

Example Sentences

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Back in the old days of the trusts, it would be the proverbial smoke-filled room with a bunch of fat dudes in three piece suits, smoking cigars, fixing prices.

From New York Times

In a recent appearance with Dhillon, Kirk praised her for taking on GOP leadership, saying, “This is a club, it’s a cartel, it’s a smoke-filled room, you are not supposed to ask questions.”

From Washington Post

“I guess I would like to go back not to the smoke-filled room, but to the smoke-free room,” Professor Burnham told The Times in 1988.

From New York Times

My father got a vasectomy in the mid-'80s, which I can only assume was done in a smoke-filled room with a cocaine-dusted razor blade.

From Salon

My father got a vasectomy in the mid-'80s, which I can only assume was done in a smoke-filled room with a cocaine-dusted razor blade.

From Salon