| 单词 | cloak and dagger |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloak and dagger cloak and dagger n. [translating French de cape et d'épée] (a) = cloak and sword adj.; (b) of, concerned with, or characteristic of espionage, secrecy, intrigue, etc.; hence in various allusive phrases; hence cloak-and-daggery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] dernc897 dighela1000 hid?c1225 stillc1275 stillyc1275 covertc1303 secrec1374 secret1399 secretivec1470 covered1484 dark1532 underhid1532 hiddena1547 concealed1558 abstruse1576 unshewing1598 mystical1600 of secreta1616 mystica1625 subterraneous1652 researched1653 hugger-mugger1692 hidlingsa1810 sub rosa1824 cachet1837 cloak and dagger1841 theftuous1881 q.t.1910 closet1966 down-low1991 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [adjective] > of the nature of spying cloak and dagger1841 Orient Express1883 spooky1975 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > melodrama melodramatic1789 cloak and sword1806 melodramic1835 cloak and dagger1841 Adelphi1883 lyceum1898 transpontine1901 Grand Guignolesque1908 Grand Guignolish1908 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > an organization of spies net1869 ring1901 cloak and dagger1946 spy network1977 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxiv. 69 A very small scrap of dirty paper..was given him by a person then waiting at the door... ‘With a cloak and dagger?’ 1860 G. Vandenhoff Dramatic Reminisc. vi. 96 A most solemn and mysterious tragedian, of the cloak-and-dagger school. 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 600/1 Our sham revivals of cloak and dagger are poor things. 1905 Academy 10 June 603/2 Thousands of cloak-and-dagger stories. 1907 Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 3/3 Fighting and brawling,..intrigue of love and politics, and all the elements of cloak-and-dagger fiction. 1946 Britannica Bk. of Year 832/1 Cloak and dagger, Office of Strategic Services; pertaining to OSS. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing 419 The cloak-and-dagger atmosphere which keeps intruding, all his life, into the Party-member's world. 1958 Listener 10 July 64/2 The main interest in this wild cloak-and-daggery is why it came to be written. 1959 ‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade xx. 272 The police, or M.I.5, or some of those cloak-and-dagger boys, had a line on him. 1959 M. Steen Tower i. iii. 36 She had two pips on her shoulder and was private secretary to a man in the Cloak and Dagger. < as lemmas |
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