But I don't want to have it in a hole-in-corner way, a bit at a time, first one and then another.    From Wordnik.com.  [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference

And that he may have to take similar hole-in-corner, don't frighten the foreigners, strictly-between-you-and-me decisions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Gus O'Donnell pleases all parties on Lockerbie bomber | Simon Hoggart's sketch] Reference

Not late -- between 7 and 8 -- and not furtive hole-in-corner places, -- where girls belonging to the establishment, wearing almost nothing at all, performed the latest dances, with extravagant and daring variations of them, among the tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roving East and Roving West] Reference