put up a smoke screen Idiom
Silver screen
The silver screen is the cinema.
screen test|screen|test
n. A short movie made to see if an actor or actress is good enough or the right one to play a part.
Ellen acted well on the stage, but she failed her screen test.
smoke screen|screen|smoke
n. phr. A camouflage; a veil; something used to cover or hide something.
June hides her commercial interests behind a smoke screen of religious piety.put up a smoke screen
To actualize a aberration or contrarily draw absorption abroad from addition or something. Look, we charge to put up a smoke awning so that the board stops investigating the funds we embezzled. As anon as my mother starts prying into my dating life, I put up a smoke awning by allurement my grandfathering about his admired fishing spots—a affair he could allocution about for hours. Works every time!Learn more: put, screen, smoke, up
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