cloak-and-dagger

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.
    — Israel wages cloak-and-dagger war on Iran [headline]

词源

Calque of French de cape et d'épée (“of the cloak and the sword”); first attested 1840. The French term referred to a genre of drama in which the main characters wore cloaks and had swords. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the “cloak and sword” term in 1840, whereas Charles Dickens preferred “cloak and dagger” a year later.
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