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nook and cranny (plural nooks and crannies)
- (idiomatic, with "any" or "every") A place or part of a place, especially one that is small, remote, or tedious to access.
Everyone helped out to clean every nook and cranny of the house.
Cleaning this equipment really isn't hard except that getting into all the nooks and crannies is time-consuming.
1966 , Hans Christian Andersen, “Soup from a Sausage Peg”, in Pat Shaw Iversen, transl., The Snow Queen and Other Tales (Signet Classic; CT334), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, translation of Suppe paa en Pølsepind (in Danish), →OCLC, page 224:It’s strange to come away from home, from your own nook and cranny, to go by ship – which is also a kind of nook and cranny – and then suddenly be more than a hundred miles away and stand in a foreign land!
2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:Ever since the post-war spread of the motor car, the railways have had to contend with tough competition, but have had an inherent advantage in the commuter and inter-city markets. Now they are about to face two new enemies - a technology that everyone has learnt to use and a virus that many people think lurks in every nook and cranny of the rail system.
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