hole-and-corner
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Despairing of explaining to the English middle class the idea of high and central public instruction, as distinct from coarse and hole-and-corner private instruction, he invoked the aid of Dickens.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
What's life worth to a man in them hole-and-corner places?
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell
