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Idiom
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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This is window dressing for an exhibition with a difference.
But Lowry thinks that's window dressing for adults' real problem with the book.
The rest of fashion was just window dressing for the strip tease.
Reformist politicians such as Khatami were mere "window dressing for the regime".
The transitional government is little more than window dressing for military rule.
Eco arguments have become window dressing for "not in my back yard".
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It was wonderfully cantankerous, a good bit of window-dressing for the gooey stuff that followed.
To his chagrin, he soon felt he was mere window-dressing for a shadow government run by the intelligence services.
Especially since I have also argued that morality is often just window-dressing for our nonmoral desires.
In the past 50 years, Moroccan parliamentary elections have generally been regarded as window-dressing for the king's western allies.
The reality, though, is that the "less sexism and overt racism" is just a little window-dressing for a more PC audience.
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