0 If something happens behind the scenes, it happens without most people knowing about it, especially when something else is happening publicly: --
behind-the-scenes negotiations
It was, however, a different story behind the scenes.
He was also to play two parts, one open, one very much behind the scenes, in the tale of the purloined letters.
Behind the scenes there has been some tremendous support.
Could it be that highbrow interests count for more because behind the scenes they contribute more or in a more prolonged way to other interests?
Behind the scenes were a number of former soldiers, as well as lawyers who had worked at the war crimes trials.
It is, of course, difficult to know what goes on behind the scenes, in terms of the institutional or other restraints on ministers.
It seems reasonable that the human mental process yielding a judgment is guided by a number of heuristics that unconsciously 'act behind the scenes'.
Kemble describes her passage from one part of the tunnel to the other in theatrical terms as a privileged look behind the scenes.
