smoke-filled room

Does he really think that posturing in front of the cameras is the antidote to haggling in the proverbial smoke-filled room?

This characterization about how a smoke-filled room was responsible for your selection.

It sent me scuttling across the hall to the sporting editor's smoke-filled room.

“Here they come,” someone shouted as, stamping the snow from their feet, they entered the smoke-filled room.

Wynne was a frowning Hercules as he entered the pleasant smoke-filled room.

In a smoke-filled room a fireman may find a stratum of cool, and comparatively fresh, air at the bottom near the floor.

I can't now recall another figure in that smoke-filled room.