Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hole-and-corner? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres.
Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?
Examples from Classical Literature
She knows the Neapolitans, and does not value them but for hole-and-corner defence.
No one could say that it was a hole-and-corner business, far less that the assembly was packed.
The Swiss had had enough of electioneering tricks, hole-and-corner revolutions, and paper compacts.
I want no hole-and-corner confession, which may afterwards be useless, but an open avowal before the most approved witnesses.
It was obvious that we had many friends, that we were not going to be tried in a hole-and-corner fashion.
There was to be no hole-and-corner business about the great coup.
But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and-corner Buffery!
Beebe all tell me I'm so stupid, so I suppose I am, but I shall never understand this hole-and-corner work.
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.
