Usually means: Observer unnoticed in significant situations.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word fly on the wall:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fly-on-the-wall: Merriam-Webster
  2. fly on the wall, fly on the wall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fly on the wall: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fly-on-the-wall, fly on the wall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. fly on the wall: Wiktionary
  6. Fly on the Wall (Bobby V album), Fly on the Wall (song), Fly on the Wall (video), Fly-on-the-wall, Fly on the wall (disambiguation), Fly on the wall, The Fly on the Wall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Fly-on-the-wall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Fly on the wall: Phrase Finder
  9. fly on the wall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fly-on-the-wall: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fly-on-the-wall: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fly-on-the-wall: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. Fly-on-the-wall: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fly-on-the-wall, fly on the wall: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fly on the wall)

noun:  (idiomatic) A quiet, non-participating, or unseen observer; an eavesdropper or witness.

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