hole-and-corner
adjective
secretive; clandestine; furtive.
hole-in-corner
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a variation of
hole-and-corner.
Example Sentences
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Superficially, says Wilson, the Outsider is just a social misfit, a "hole-in-corner man."
From Time Magazine Archive
The place was shabby, as befitted a hole-in-corner enterprise, but Terry saw not that shabbiness.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
But I don't want to have it in a hole-in-corner way, a bit at a time, first one and then another.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman
