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hole-and-corner
adjective as in surreptitious
adjective as in undercover
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There was to be no hole-and-corner business about the great coup.
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But this hole-and-corner way of doing warfare damps all enthusiasm and stifles recruiting.
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Do you think Paula Varick is the kind of girl to practice hole-and-corner meetings at museums or restaurants?
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Deny him any playground but a hole-and-corner court, and you'll find that he'll betake himself to hole-and-corner games in it.
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The call might not come, of course; the war might be short, a hole-and-corner affair soon ended.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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