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
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
Said one American: "Has an international document ever been ratified in such a hole-and-corner fashion?"
From Time Magazine Archive
"You will not mind such a hole-and-corner sort of wedding?" he asked anxiously.
From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)
The hole-and-corner life he was leading was becoming very wearisome to a man of his tastes, and his long daylight sittings in the little Bloomsbury room were getting sadly on his nerves.
From The Princess Galva A Romance by Whitelaw, David
