cloak-and-dagger
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One woman said: "It has been cloak and dagger throughout this whole process. We can't get a straight answer as to what has changed so drastically to allow the park to be built on?"
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025
“There’s a little bit of cloak and dagger secrecy,” he said.
From Reuters • May 31, 2023
Michel surrounded himself with people to help with his transition to politics and eventually entered the orbit of a wealthy Malaysian “playboy” but didn’t engage in “James Bond … cloak and dagger stuff,” he said.
From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 2023
“But here it does not have anything to do with that, as far as we know. This may not be the cloak and dagger type of espionage.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2022
There wasn't any point in my doing it, of course, except to demonstrate to the lieutenant that I considered the whole deal as a silly piece of cloak and dagger stuff.
From Sense from Thought Divide by Dongen, H. R. van
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