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Significats de hole-in-corner en anglès

Relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life.

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Examples for "hole-and-corner"
Examples for "hole-and-corner"
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Maybe, some little deadly act of meanness, some hole-and-corner treachery?
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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But, as I say, it is a hole-and-corner business.
Youth
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A hole-and-corner district like this is not the world!
The Shadow of the Rope
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The call might not come, of course; the war might be short, a hole-and-corner affair soon ended.
In the Wilderness
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I don't like this hole-and-corner business, Rosanne.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
Ús de hole-in-corner en anglès
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But I don't want to have it in a hole-in-corner way, a bit at a time, first one and then another.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties