hole-and-corner

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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You can say or print almost anything so long as you are willing to do it in a hole-and-corner way.

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Papa would not have liked a hole-and-corner affair.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

This poverty-stricken chamber was the domicile of the queer fellow who passed his daylight hours in the company of Mother Toulouche, hobnobbing with a hole-and-corner crew, cronies of the old receiver of stolen goods.

From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Souvestre, Pierre