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

Said one American: "Has an international document ever been ratified in such a hole-and-corner fashion?"

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

Despairing of explaining to the English middle class the idea of high and central public instruction, as distinct from coarse and hole-and-corner private instruction, he invoked the aid of Dickens.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

There is no getting out of it now," remarked the Professor, with a rueful face; "and I don't think you have improved matters by getting married in this hole-and-corner way.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.