单词 | hole-in-corner |
释义 | hole-in-corner (once / 3939771 pages) adj WORD FAMILY hole-in-corner USAGE EXAMPLESThe place was shabby, as befitted a hole-in-corner enterprise, but Terry saw not that shabbiness. Onions, Oliver, Mushroom Town(2012) At any rate, a lark with a pleasant image was better than a hole-in-corner, Miss Hastings affair with a gardener. Onions, Oliver [pseud.], The Story of Louie(2011) But I don't want to have it in a hole-in-corner way, a bit at a time, first one and then another. Housman, Laurence, King John of Jingalo—The Story of a...(2010) adj relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life Syn hole-and-corner insignificant, unimportant devoid of importance, meaning, or force |
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