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means The informal, invisible networks of senior officials and insiders—not the elected titles or org charts—where real institutional decisions actually get shaped.

from Popularized by C. P. Snow, who used it as a book title in 1963 (Corridors of Power), drawing on his own experience moving through civil service and government circles; the phrase caught on precisely because it named something everyone sensed but had no tidy label for—influence that moves through hallways and private conversations rather than through formal votes.