hole-and-corner
Example Sentences
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The oxygen mask wall continue to put a new face on the secret agent of tradition, marking his release from the hole-and-corner, back-alley deals of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
You can say or print almost anything so long as you are willing to do it in a hole-and-corner way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said one American: "Has an international document ever been ratified in such a hole-and-corner fashion?"
From Time Magazine Archive
We had better have your story blazoned out once more to the world than that you should live your life in this hole-and-corner fashion.
From The Master Mummer by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Some scientific fellows about town had got wind of the thing, and wished to be present: to this we made no manner of objection, as it was not a hole-and-corner meeting.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
