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a fig leaf something that you use to try to hide an embarrassing fact or problem. Are the peace talks simply providing a fig leaf for the continuing aggression between the two countries? |
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Unfortunately, Willard's "comprehensive approach" would put all children at serious risk by leaving a loaded gun in every wired classroom while "protecting" children only through the fig leaf of policy and instruction. Yet, given the premise of drawing as a noun (and its supposed "finished" quality that arose during the '90s), and in the absence of any specific new criteria, the assertion seems part fig leaf, part fog machine. Social acceptance, while held out as a fig leaf to the potential converts, was much harder to come by. |
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