hole-and-corner
Example Sentences
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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
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
For the Gideonites were one of those strange enthusiastic hole-and-corner sects that spring up naturally in the outlying suburbs of great thinking centres.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
The further success of She Stoops to Conquer was not likely to propitiate the wretched hole-and-corner cut-throats that infested the journalism of that day.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William
