Sentence examples for fig leaf from inspiring English sources

"fig leaf" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to express a sense of covering up something, figuratively or literally, to mask the truth or to hide something. For example, "The company's explanation was just a fig leaf for the true reason they made the decision."

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fig leaf

noun

A leaf of the fig plant.

Exact(52)

It's a fig leaf operation".

Not even a fig leaf.

But that is just a fig leaf.

This is a legal fig leaf.

But that was a fig leaf.

That is just a flimsy fig leaf.

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But even that fig-leaf was denied them.

This is me with my fig-leaf skirt".

Exhibitionism with the fig-leaf of a good cause?

It was neither a token nor a fig-leaf.

It's a fig-leaf for two reasons.

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