| 词汇 | a fly on the wall |
| 词源 | a fly on the wall. A relatively new phrase (20th century) al- luding to a fly that is on the wall unnoticed in a room and is seeing or hearing everything going on inside, as in “I’d sure like to be a fly on the wall in there.” |
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