Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - cloak-and-dagger
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Cloak-and-dagger
cloak-and-dagger
adjective Date: 1860 dealing in or suggestive of melodramatic intrigue and action usually involving secret agents and espionage a ~ novel • ~ noun
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1.
1. шпионский, связанный со шпионами cloak-and-dagger boys —- сл. работники разведки 2. приключенческий cloak-and-dagger literature —- приключенческая литература ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
2.
agents шпионы CLOAK-AND-DAGGER adj. 1) приключенческий; романтический - cloak-and-dagger comedy 2) шпионский - cloak-and-dagger agents CLOAK-AND-DAGGER comedy комедия плаща и шпаги ...Англо-русский словарь
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
4.
~ adj usually before noun a cloak-and-dagger situation, activity etc, is very secret and mysterious, often in a way that seems unnecessary (Cloak-and-dagger tactics were used to get the bill through Parliament. | cloak-and-dagger stuff (=mysterious activities or ways of behaving)) (I'm sick of all this cloak-and-dagger stuff.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
{adj.} Of or about spies and secret agents. * /It was a cloak-and-dagger story about some spies who tried to steal atomic secrets./ * /The book was written by a retired colonel who used to take part in cloak-and-dagger plots./ (From the wearing of cloaks and daggers by people in old adventure stories.) Compare: BLOOD AND THUNDER. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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