Meaning of hole-and-corner | Babel Free

Definitions

Conducted in secret; clandestine.

Examples

“The Baron rather frowned on such things, thinking them injudicious at the present stage of affairs, so His Highness had to go about them in a hole and corner manner.”

“Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?”

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