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The phrase 'through the back door' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person or thing entering or leaving a place discreetly, or not using the main entrance. For example, "The robbers made their escape through the back door."
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By the back door.
If something is started or introduced by the back door, then it is not done openly or by following the proper procedures.
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It was down through the back door.
Wheelchair access is through the back door.
IS THIS privatisation through the back door?
"We came through the back door".
He said: "I sneaked in through the back door".
"The water came through the back door," she says.
That was when Grady burst through the back door.
We do it through the back door via tax breaks.
"I felt I had to escape through the back door".
I escaped through the back door," he said.
Some patients started to flee through the back door.
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