hole-and-corner

英[həulənd'kɔ:nə(r)]美[həulənd'kɔ:nə(r)]

a.
1.秘密的，偷偷摸摸的

同：	[a.] hole-in-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret

I don't like all this hole-and-corner business!"
我最恨这样瞒得实腾腾地！”收藏
But why not talk openly instead of in this hole-and-corner fashion?
"我只问你们:有话不明说,许你们这样鬼鬼祟祟的干什么故事?"收藏
She was living a hole - and - corner existence of daily drudgery.
她每日过着繁忙而乏味的生活。收藏
clandestine intelligence operations; cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines; hole-and-corner intrigue; secret missions; a secret agent; secret sales of arms; surreptitious mobilization of troops; an undercover investigation; underground resistance.
秘密情报处理；在敌军阵线后的谍报行动；暗中的阴谋；秘密使命；密探；倒卖军火；暗中囤兵；秘密调查；秘密抵抗。收藏

relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life
- a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community
[同] hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- clandestine intelligence operations
- cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
- hole-and-corner intrigue
- secret missions
- a secret agent
- secret sales of arms
- surreptitious mobilization of troops
- an
[同] hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger

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