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What does cloak-and-dagger mean?

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Adjective
  1. Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.
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Then, it was all murderous cloak-and-dagger stuff conducted far from the light of day, with scant regard for the law or human rights.
Hughes's dramatic arrival at the local airport seemed symbolic of the cloak-and-dagger air surrounding the US skaters.
Part of the misperception today stems from the cloak-and-dagger intrigue so prevalent in pop culture's version of international police work.
He saw me at the hungry i in San Francisco two years ago and that's when he had the brilliant idea to use me in a cloak-and-dagger deal.
At stake amidst this cloak-and-dagger power play is the growth of not only black rugby, but of rugby as a whole in the region.
These are some of the questions that the Punjab law, which was enacted in a cloak-and-dagger manner, has raised.

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