Sentence examples for like a plaster from inspiring English sources

People are expecting a cure for Harry Potter blues, and Pottermore is rather like a plaster.

Bambi Sheleg, a religious former settler who now runs a centrist magazine, Eretz Acheret, said the campaign is "like a plaster over the real issues".

It looks like a plaster cast of a human knee and shin, or perhaps the skin shed from the body of a monumental snake.

Shortly thereafter, Moravia finally left Morante; he felt, he explained, "as if I had rid myself of something heavy, like a plaster cast".

Later, when we came back for the first fitting (it takes at least two fittings to make these suits), Mr. Vaish drew various arrows and markings in chalk on the navy suit as Harry stood like a plaster model.

The heart rate and activity tracker is designed to be stuck to the wearer's torso like a plaster and left there for seven days at a time, hidden from view.

No one who saw the 1975 production, directed by Alan Dossor, will forget the sight of Richard Beckinsale as the sexually inquisitive grocer Trevor Tinsley, having fallen into his own cellar while pursued by a village widow, being lovingly serviced under the bedclothes by his wife (played by Julie Walters) while trussed up like a plaster-cast chicken in hospital.

It's a bit like sticking a plaster on a leaky bucket.

"I think expecting people to wash their dogs, boots children after a woodland walk is like sticking a plaster on a broken leg.

"I think that a lot of productions bring the police in at the last minute," says Wainwright. "Lisa has been asked to do that loads of times on various shows and she says you can't do anything, it's like putting a plaster on a broken leg.

"Carrying out this work is like putting a plaster patch on a festering wound".