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Definition of Behind-the-scenes
1. Adjective. Designed and carried out secretly or confidentially. "Has their under-the-table backing"
Definition of Behind-the-scenes
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of behind the scenes) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behind-the-scenes
Literary usage of Behind-the-scenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"642 Behind the Scenes in Fleet Street. By THS Escott . . 332 Best of Winter
Sports, The . 244 Bird in the Room, The. By RC Lehmann . ..."
2. The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (1919)
"THE WAR WITH MEXICO XXI BEHIND THE SCENES AT MEXICO September,-March, THE revolution
of August 4, as already has been suggested, was a complex and ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... BEHIND THE SCENES. FROM the time when that veteran actor, Mr. Thespis, was in
the habit of travelling with his ox-cart on the Attic circuit, ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1849)
"HAVE you ever been behind the scenes at the Opera? If not, come with me; everybody
used to go, but they are stricter about these matters now. ..."
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