| 单词 | hole-and-corner |
| 释义 | hole-and-corner (once / 78796 pages) 1adj 2adj WORD FAMILY hole-and-corner USAGE EXAMPLESThe thing was reported, and though the Tories sneered at it as a hole-and-corner meeting, Farthingale held another view. Weyman, Stanley John, The Great House(2012) The splendid plans, the world-embracing schemes with which he had dazzled her, had shrunk indeed into a hole-and-corner effort to save his own skin. Weyman, Stanley J., Starvecrow Farm(2012) When there is real variety, what may be called hole-and-corner work,—conspiracy,—influence of sect or clique,—are impossible. Burgon, John William, The Traditional Text of the Holy Go...(2012) 1 adj conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods 2hole-and-corner intrigue Syn clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed adj relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells Syn hole-in-corner insignificant, unimportant devoid of importance, meaning, or force |
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