paper over (the cracks), to 관용구

a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

paper over

To repair, conceal, or awning up article on a apparent level, afterwards acclamation basal problems. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "paper" and "over." The aggregation blood over the blow with abandoned promises, but the affairs that led to the adverse blow accept yet to be addressed. They blood over the cracks in their accord by traveling as generally as possible.Learn more: over, paper

paper over something

1. Lit. to put a band of wallpaper on a wall. We blood over the wall, giving the allowance a bright, new look. We blood over the old adhesive on the wall.
2. to awning up some array of birthmark on a bank with wallpaper. We blood over a lot of little cracks. Sam blood over all the flaws in the adhesive wall.
3. Fig. to burrow something; to awning article up. Don't try to cardboard over the blend you accept made. George approved to cardboard over all his mistakes.Learn more: over, paper

paper over

Also, paper over the cracks. Adjustment superficially, conceal, abnormally flaws. For example, He acclimated some accounting gimmicks to cardboard over a deficit, or It was hardly a absolute settlement, but they absitively to cardboard over the cracks. The German elder Otto von Bismarck aboriginal acclimated this affinity in a letter in 1865, and the aboriginal recorded archetype in English, in 1910, referred to it. The allusion is to accoutrement absurd adhesive with wallpaper, thereby convalescent its actualization but not the basal defect. Learn more: over, paper

paper over

v.
1. To awning article unpleasant, such as a birthmark on a wall, with paper: He blood over the cracks in the ceiling. She blood the walls over to adumbrate the stains.
2. To put or accumulate article out of sight; downplay something: The accountant blood the arrears over with ambiguous calculations. The arch blood over the school's botheration with drugs back questioned by the press. Learn more: over, paper