hole-and-corner
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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
This wretched poky little hole-and-corner village, where people grovelled away their lives by the score of years at a time; what was it to him?
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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)
