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

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

He had delivered the bills to me the same night, and I had them posted, with the result that, instead of a hole-and-corner meeting, there was a crowded audience of mixed political opinions.

From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

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

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