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Hole-and-corner   /hoʊl-ənd-kˈɔrnər/   Listen
Hole-and-corner

adjective
1.
Relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life.  Synonym: hole-in-corner.
2.
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.  Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground.  "Cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines" , "Hole-and-corner intrigue" , "Secret missions" , "A secret agent" , "Secret sales of arms" , "Surreptitious mobilization of troops" , "An undercover investigation" , "Underground resistance"






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"Hole-and-corner" Quotes from Famous Books



... second strip of coast! That is all! Contrast the complexity of Europe, its lack of symmetry, its variety, irregularity, disorder and caprice! The geography of the two continents already foreshadows the differences in their civilizations. On the one hand simplicity and size; on the other a hole-and-corner variety; there immense rivers, endless forests, interminable plains, indefinite repetition of a few broad ideas; here distracting transitions, novelties, surprises, shocks, distinctions in a word, already suggesting Distinction. Even in its physical features America is the land of quantity, ...
— A Modern Symposium • G. Lowes Dickinson



Words linked to "Hole-and-corner" :   insignificant, covert, unimportant



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