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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Canada, US, informal) A restaurant, shop or other establishment catering to customers that is particularly inconspicuous and easily overlooked..
They walked by a tea museum, two local pharmacies, a bakery, and one hole-in-the-wall shop still selling knickknacks from Chinese New Year, before coming to a stop outside the unassuming front door of 189.
Use hole-in-the-wall when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hole-in-the-wall means (Canada, US, informal) A restaurant, shop or other establishment catering to customers that is particularly inconspicuous and easily overlooked..
Common synonyms include automated teller machine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They walked by a tea museum, two local pharmacies, a bakery, and one hole-in-the-wall shop still selling knickknacks from Chinese New Year, before coming to a stop outside the unassuming front door of 189.
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