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单词 hole-in-corner
释义
hole-in-corner
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adj

WORD FAMILY
hole-in-corner
USAGE EXAMPLES
The 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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