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Window dressing.
If something is done to pretend to be dealing with an issue or problem, rather than actually dealing with it, it is window dressing.
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But his use of Disney World is not as simple window dressing; he transforms it into something gruesome and disturbing — a place where, for example, guests are sometimes tasered and have their imaginations purged.
But if sold, Twitter's drive for disruptive innovation could give way to simple window dressing, such as cleaner user interfaces.
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That seemed mere window dressing.
The football is mere window dressing.
From below, it seemed mere window dressing.
They're window-dressing, yes, but important window dressing.
The phenomenon of economic and political disengagement is far from simple and this is not a quick fix, it may even be accused of only being a bit of window dressing.
Most famous as window dressing.
"This is political window dressing".
It is not window dressing.
Committees are window dressing.
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