Definition of "nook or cranny" []

• A part of a place, especially small or remote. (noun)

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• "Doubtless there exists, in some shadier nook or cranny of Whitehall's less public departments, or their equivalents in other countries, an official but restricted manual codifying the various available manoeuvres for shaking off a professional shadow; and it may be that item 17. 3b/l therein treats of the timely interposition of visually obstructive obstacles and of making a rapid alteration of pedestrian course under cover of such an obstacle."