the boys in the back room

and the backroom boys

Fig. any private group of men who make decisions, usually political decisions. (See also .) The boys in the back room picked the last presidential candidate. The backroom boys have decided too many things in the past. Their day is over.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hanna (1)	HAHN-nah (Finnish, Polish, Ukrainian), HAH-nah (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Hungar
Flamur	-	Albanian
Climacus	-	Late Roman
Lis	-	Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Jagjit	-	Indian (Sikh)
Mariazinha	-	Portuguese