English-French translations for fly on the wall

• petite souris
  Si j'avais pu être une petite souris, hier, j'aurai peut-être entendu des propos tentant de nous persuader que le gouvernement britannique avait tenté de promouvoir l'ESB dans notre pays. If I had been a fly on the wall yesterday I could well have heard some people trying to make us believe that the British Government was trying to promote BSE in our country.

Definition of fly on the wall

• A quiet, non-participating, or unseen observer; an eavesdropper or witness

Related words

• fly on
• fly ribbon
• no-fly zone
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• butterfly (only before nouns)
• crush a fly upon a wheel
• common fruit fly
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