It's a cloak-and-dagger operation.
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Cloak-and-dagger
Synonyms for "cloak-and-dagger" (52 found)
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Adjective(10 words)
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Strong matches (15)
Adjective(10 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (26)
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1 entriesTranslations
8 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- плащ и кинжал adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
Finnish
1 entries- salamyhkäinen adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
French
1 entries- de cape et d’épée adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
German
1 entries- Mantel-und-Degen adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
Japanese
1 entries- 外套と短剣 adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
Polish
1 entries- potajemny adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
Spanish
2 entries- de capa y espada adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
- de intriga y misterio adj (marked by menacing furtive secrecy)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
There's some cloak-and-dagger stuff going on here.
Source: tatoeba (10527533)
Israel wages cloak-and-dagger war on Iran [headline]
Source: wiktionary
Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses.
Source: wiktionary
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