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Hole-in-the-wall

noun

A small unpretentious out-of-the-way place.

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"Hole-in-the-wall" Quotes from Famous Books

... being up before us, for they have bivouacked; and the latter, as they often sleep standing, are naturally somnambulists. Weasels, too, we can pardon for running across the road before us, and as they reach the hole-in-the-wall, showing by their clear eyes that they have been awake for hours, and have probably breakfasted on leveret. We have no spite at chanticleer, nor the hooting owls against whom he is so lustily crowing hours before the orient; nor do we care although we know that is not the ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... barber Sonada, who is only a hired hand, sits beside the Japanese Consul at the head of the room. Umimoto remains standing until Sonada is seated. When another barber, T. Takano, who runs a little hole-in-the-wall shop and lives at 10 Avenida B, shows up, both Sonada and the Consul rise, bow very low and remain standing until he motions them to be seated. Maybe it's just an old Japanese custom, but the Consul does not extend the same courtesy ...

— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

Words linked to "Hole-in-the-wall" : place, spot, topographic point