backstage
Speech parts
1. backstage - Noun
2. backstage - Adjective
3. backstage - Adverb
4. backstage - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
a stage area out of sight of the audience
concealed from public view or attention
in or to a backstage area of a theater
out of view of the public; behind the scenes
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I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.
All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.
What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
[as George W. Bush] I will tame evil, I will get the evil ones, We must find the evil ones. We must get evil, we must laminate evil, we must wear it round our necks, at the backstage party in paradise!
Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasingly indistinguishable from TV scripts.