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hole in the wall

British  

noun

  1. another name for cash dispenser

  2. a small dingy place, esp one difficult to find

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

hole in the wall Idioms  
  1. A small, modest, or obscure place, as in My new apartment is just a hole in the wall, or Believe it or not, that little hole in the wall is a great restaurant. This graphic term is often used disparagingly. [First half of 1800s]


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Investigators later found a hole in the wall linking the two houses.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Through a hole in the wall of one house, some crockery had remained impossibly upright on a shelf - while everything else around lay shattered or burned.

From BBC May 7, 2025

If you kick a hole in the wall in my house, don't ask me how to fix it.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2024

One tenant said after his neighbor died in 2019, maggots came through a hole in the wall.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2023

Alba made a hole in the wall, through which she removed part of what Blanca stored.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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