What does fly on the wall mean?

fly on the wall

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

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"James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassador to Germany, the first speaker of the evening, said that at that moment he would like to be a fly on the wall of the palace at Potsdam to hear what the Potsdam gang were saying about our soldiers."
"I wish I'd been a little fly on his chamber wall when he found out that he had to go through the Michigan Child Custody Act!"

flies on the wall (plural)

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