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
"You will not mind such a hole-and-corner sort of wedding?" he asked anxiously.
From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)
The splendid plans, the world-embracing schemes with which he had dazzled her, had shrunk indeed into a hole-and-corner effort to save his own skin.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
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