any old nook or cranny

any old nook or cranny

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any old nook or cranny

1. (idiomatic) Alternative form of any nook or cranny
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     [Aunt Dahlia] had done Wilbert well where sleeping accommodation was concerned. What he had drawn when clocking in at Brinkley Court was the room known as the Blue Room, a signal honour to be accorded to a bachelor guest, amounting to being given star billing, for at Brinkley, as at most country-houses, any old nook or cranny is considered good enough for the celibate contingent. My own apartment, to take a case in point, was a sort of hermit's cell in which one would have been hard put to it to swing a cat, even a smaller one than Augustus, not of course that one often wants to do much cat-swinging.