| 单词 | cloak-and-dagger |
| 释义 | cloak-and-dagger (once / 60925 pages) adj WORD FAMILY cloak-and-dagger USAGE EXAMPLESParallel insurgencies formed away from Congress, notably the cloak-and-dagger Arkansas Project, which sent muckrakers into every hollow in Arkansas. Seattle Times(Dec 11, 2016) It has always sounded to me like blistering commentary about a police state, or some kind of high-stakes cloak-and-dagger situation. The New Yorker(Nov 30, 2016) In the true cloak-and-dagger days of the Cup, the monohull’s keels were shrouded when teams were not racing to keep competitors from getting a look. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) adj conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines Syn clandestine, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed |
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