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
As being preferable to hole-and-corner meetings in friends' houses——!
From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
We had better have your story blazoned out once more to the world than that you should live your life in this hole-and-corner fashion.
From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
