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The door where egos go to avoid the people they just name-dropped inside.
means An entrance or exit at the rear of a building, used for discreet, service, or secondary access rather than the main public way in.
from Simply compound and functional — 'back' (Old English bæc, the rear of something) plus 'entrance' (from French entrer, Latin intrare, 'to go into'). No hidden story here: the phrase names exactly what it is, though its real history is social — rear doors were long used for servants, deliveries, and anyone not meant to be seen coming in the front, which is where the word's quiet talent for discretion (and hypocrisy) comes from.
- origin use
- servants and deliveries, historically kept separate from guests
- modern use
- celebrities avoiding fans, interns avoiding bosses
- irony
- often harder to find than the thing it hides
- security flaw
- usually the least guarded way in