英语词汇“hole-and-corner”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

hole-and-corner

adjective

Attempting to avoid public notice; secret: a hole-and-corner wedding...

To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers.
Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres.

Synonyms

secret, secretive, in secret, private, clandestine;

underhand, surreptitious, covert, furtive, devious, stealthy, sneaky, backstairs, closet, undercover, hugger-mugger, cloak-and-dagger, behind-the-scenes, under-the-table, under-the-counter;

Military black

informal hush-hush

单词	hole-and-corner
释义	hole-and-corner adjective Attempting to avoid public notice; secret: a hole-and-corner wedding... To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers. Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government. Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres. Synonyms secret, secretive, in secret, private, clandestine; underhand, surreptitious, covert, furtive, devious, stealthy, sneaky, backstairs, closet, undercover, hugger-mugger, cloak-and-dagger, behind-the-scenes, under-the-table, under-the-counter; Military black informal hush-hush
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