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hole in the wall
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Idioms and Phrases
A small, modest, or obscure place, as in My new apartment is just a hole in the wall , or Believe it or not, that little hole in the wall is a great restaurant . This graphic term is often used disparagingly. [First half of 1800s]Discover More
Example Sentences
On our way back into Città Vecchia we poke our heads into some random, hole-in-the-wall joints looking for signs of Joyce.
My platonic ideal is the hole-in-the-wall seafood joint, Swan Oyster Depot.
At a little hole-in-the-wall stand on Virtudes Street he bought a glass of mouth-puckering tamarind juice.
And you hang the expedition up here in this hole-in-the-wall waiting for my agent to cable more wheat-money.
The old sign of the Hole-in-the-Wall (see our illustrations) shows such an opening in a square piece of brickwork.
The fact is that girl told it in the voice of one who should be bawling quick orders in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant.
The “hole-in-the-wall” or “blind tiger” provides a rendezvous for all the outcasts of society.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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