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Significats de cloak-and-dagger en anglès
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.
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Examples for "secret"
Examples for "secret"
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They say that keeping that number a secret is simply industry practice.
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Methods: Review of previously secret tobacco industry documents available on the internet.
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But New Zealand's high rates of family violence are hardly a secret.
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Hundreds have gone missing after seen last being taken by secret police.
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Its secret nature, however, meant that this information was slow in coming.
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Water flowing underground News flash: scientists say there's water in Wellington Harbour.
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No territory, state or individual can separate and work underground, Barroso said.
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Heriansyah said the ban on the group would simply push it underground.
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She went underground and started plans to move back to Europe permanently.
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Go deep underground New York city to the countries largest transportation project.
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Second, the bureau kept Bazin's undercover phone number active, just in case.
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It was time to go undercover for her own extended good health.
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The case led to the police overhauling their rules about undercover operation.
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You let them work undercover for a few days, then they're gone.
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The talk among the group was of everything but weddings-andundercover work.
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This clandestine operation, however, required a handshake with a five-dollar bill enclosed.
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With extreme prejudice? He used the jargon of clandestine operatives for effect.
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Dulles was well aware that the clandestine service was out of control.
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For now, however, the clandestine origin of the videos is under wraps.
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Even with the new 24-hour drinking laws, the greatest lock-ins are clandestine.
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Invented in the 1950s, its surreptitious return in recent years is regrettable.
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It was left outside his room by a smitten but surreptitious fan.
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She went surreptitiously; this was the first surreptitious thing she had done.
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The terrible apparition cried out to his surreptitious representative-Nay ,miscreant ;butone.
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The occasion was low key, the departure of troops has been surreptitious.
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The suppliers go to great pains to keep it all very hush-hush.
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But what I do remember is that it was all very hush-hush.'
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Even the military's most precious, sensitive, cherished hush-hush programs get leaked eventually.
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Besides, he had a hush-hush advisory job which took much of his time.
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Apparently, six friends have flown over to America for the hush-hush Winehouse nuptials.
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We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters.
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I don't want to hear any more about corporate hugger-mugger.
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The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger."
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As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist.
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Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money.
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Maybe, some little deadly act of meanness, some hole-and-corner treachery?
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But, as I say, it is a hole-and-corner business.
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A hole-and-corner district like this is not the world!
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The call might not come, of course; the war might be short, a hole-and-corner affair soon ended.
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I don't like this hole-and-corner business, Rosanne.
Ús de cloak-and-dagger en anglès
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McCone kept saying he wanted to get out of the cloak-and-dagger business.
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It had become apparent that all the cloak-and-dagger talk was just that.
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I know, you thought it was more cloak-and-dagger than that, didn't you?
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Overdoing the cloak-and-dagger would be carrying it too far in the other direction.
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It would strike de Mohrenschildt as just one more bit of cloak-and-dagger spookery.
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I have to tell you I thought all this cloak-and-dagger stuff was simply hilarious.
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The scene was enchantingly fairylike, with an added cloak-and-dagger feel.
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You really do make it sound like a cloak-and-dagger affair.
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I nearly forgot, caught up in all that cloak-and-dagger tripe.
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Looks like the spooks at Naval Intelligence are up to their normal cloak-and-dagger tricks.
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Rachel was curious how these people balanced their regular lives with all the cloak-and-dagger.
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And why the hell this cloak-and-dagger shit with the mask?
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Garish costumes aren't particularly effective in a cloak-and-dagger world.
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The sinister cloak-and-dagger impression of Vienna belongs to history.
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You know, they might be all-powerful but they're way too fond of playing cloak-and-dagger games.
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It's a cloak-and-dagger strategy, and the reason why early vaccines such as Winston Price's failed.