deep-laid
adj1
Usually, Of schemes secret and carefully planned.
- Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, […]1848, Charles Dickens, chapter XVII, in Dombey and Son:
- 'Then why did you make every preparation—turn the Republics into armed camps—prepare deep-laid plans for the invasion of our Colonies?'1900, Winston Churchill, chapter X, in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria:
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- What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy.1914, Jack London, The Strength of the Strong, The Dream of Debs: