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单词 hole-and-corner
释义 hole-and-corner
\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ adjective
also hole-in-corner \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\
1. : hidden from public view especially for reprehensible reasons : clandestine, underhand
 < carrying on a hole-and-corner intrigue — Times Literary Supplement >
 < done behind my back in a hole-and-corner fashion — Dorothy Sayers >
 < following a hole-in-corner, semiconspiratorial existence — New York Times >
2. : belonging to the peripheral unimportant activities of life : insignificant
 < marriage degenerated into a hole-and-corner existence in which spirit and intellect played no part — Olive Arden >
 < a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community — H.G.Wells >
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