Meanings of hole-and-corner in English

Maybe, some little deadly act of meanness, some hole-and-corner treachery?

But, as I say, it is a hole-and-corner business.

A hole-and-corner district like this is not the world!

The call might not come, of course; the war might be short, a hole-and-corner affair soon ended.

I don't like this hole-and-corner business, Rosanne.

I won't believe- Ican't-thatyoulike this underground, hole-and-corner existence, this life that is dishonest all through.

It was obvious that we had many friends, that we were not going to be tried in a hole-and-corner fashion.

He loses in this manner a fine opportunity of making himself favourably known and of raising himself above his hole-and-corner circumstances.

And they saw brilliant prospects for the craft; it was no hole-and-corner business after all; with Garibaldi, they traveled the whole wonderful world.

I do not approve of hole-and-corner marriages, but where the gentleman has to take up an official position some allowance must be made.

Give them but a sealed box, or some hole-and-corner to hide their act in, and they will then enjoy their "liberty!"

Don't suppose that I don't understand your reasons for not wanting to let this feeling between us dwindle into an ordinary hole-and-corner love-affair.

And it's a hole-and-corner business at the best, isn't it?-andit must be a very thirsty one-withthe hot metal and furnaces and things.'

"Oh, it is a hole-and-corner business, and God only knows why," he answered.

"Think of it," Rooksby said, "and me a justice, and... oh, it drives me wild, this hole-and-corner work!