比喻通过（说情、拉关系等）不正当的途径办事to call in favours and use one's connections; to walk through doors

• 杜绝走门子等不正之风影响考生录取的情况发生

  prevent situations in which illicit methods such as calling in favours and using one's connections influence examinee enrolment

• 找关系、走门子、批条子、吃回扣，将丈夫的权力用到了“极致”。

  Finding connections, calling in favours, signing off notes, taking kickbacks...she had got using her husband's power down to a fine art.