"zwischen Tür und Angel" meaning in German

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          "english": "We shouldn’t discuss this in passing. Please come back to my office tomorrow morning, will you?",
          "text": "Wir sollten das nicht zwischen Tür und Angel besprechen. Kommen Sie doch morgen früh noch mal in mein Büro, ja?",
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          "english": "For the advocate’s sister, Signora Artemisia herself, had fetched the cherries from him and told him everything. She had accidentally discovered a woman’s hat hanging on the sofa in her brother’s room, and the woman was sitting on the sofa.",
          "ref": "1909, Heinrich Mann, Die kleine Stadt",
          "text": "Denn die Schwester des Advokaten, die Signora Artemisia selbst, hatte bei ihm die Kirschen geholt und ihm alles erzählt. Zwischen Tür und Angel hatte sie im Zimmer ihres Bruders einen Weiberhut entdeckt, der am Sofa hing; und auf dem Sofa saß die Frau.",
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          "word": "zufällig"
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          "word": "nebenbei"
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