hole-and-corner

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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.

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

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

All her life she had been accustomed to be left in the charge of strangers while Francis Agnew went about his business of hole-and-corner diplomacy.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

There was to be no hole-and-corner business about the great coup.

From Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger