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

There is no getting out of it now," remarked the Professor, with a rueful face; "and I don't think you have improved matters by getting married in this hole-and-corner way.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.

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