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hole-in-corner

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hole-and-cor⋅ner

[hohl-uhn-kawr-ner]
–adjective
1. secretive; clandestine; furtive: The political situation was full of hole-and-corner intrigue.
2. trivial and colorless: She was living a hole-and-corner existence of daily drudgery.
Also, hole-in-cor⋅ner [hohl-in-kawr-ner] .


Origin:
1825–35
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hole-in-corner

adjective
relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells [syn: hole-and-corner
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