any (old) nook or cranny Идиома

nook and cranny

Idiom(s): nook and cranny

Theme: HIDING

small, out-of-the-way places or places where something can be hidden. (Usually with every. Fixed order.)
• We looked for the tickets in every nook and cranny. They were lost. There was no doubt.
• The decorator had placed flowers in every nook and cranny.

Every nook and cranny

If you search every nook and cranny, you look everywhere for something.

cranny

cranny
see nook and cranny, every.

nook and cranny, every

nook and cranny, every
Everywhere, as in I've searched for it in every nook and cranny, and I still can't find it. This metaphoric idiom pairs nook, which has meant “an out-of-the-way corner” since the mid-1300s, with cranny, which has meant “a crack or crevice” since about 1440. Neither noun is heard much other than in this idiom.

any (old) alcove or cranny

Any allotment or area of a accustomed place, abnormally those that are adamantine to see or reach. I don't apperceive area you put your keys, they could be in any alcove or cranny. There are so abounding books in the library that you can acquisition all sorts of absorbing things in any old alcove or breach there.Learn more: any, cranny, nook

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