hole in the wall
Britishnoun
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another name for cash dispenser
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a small dingy place, esp one difficult to find
Example Sentences
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Investigators later found a hole in the wall linking the two houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The restaurant, which opened in 1972, is literally a hole in the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 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
The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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