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
Papa would not have liked a hole-and-corner affair.
From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
I says, 'just as it's that of the law, that we don't countenance hole-and-corner business.
From In the Mayor's Parlour by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)
