nook and cranny

English

Noun

nook and cranny (plural nooks and crannies)

1. (idiomatic) A place or part of a place, especially small or remote.
   • Everyone went to sleep in some nook and cranny of the house.
   • 1966, Pat Shaw Iversen (tr.), “Soup from a Sausage Peg”, in The Snow Queen and Other Tales, 1st ed. edition, translation of Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, 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!

Synonyms

• nook or cranny (negative sentences)

Derived terms

• every nook and cranny
• every old nook and cranny

Translations

small or remote place

• French: tous les coins et les recoins

Anagrams

• crook and nanny