fig leaf

In fact, once you start looking for them, fig leaves turn up everywhere.

Still, God did not take away the fig leaves of theirs.

So, the child benefit cut was always something of a fig leaf.

So the whole job creation thing was a fig leaf.

Before governments could get involved, however, they needed a policy fig leaf.

If you would like to demonstrate a fig leaf position.

The problem is that when there are so many fig leaves, they seem to disappear.

"There will be a fig leaf, so people can say we are doing something to control costs," he said.

Because he cannot tell a fig leaf from a real concession.

After this, they feel ashamed and try to cover themselves with fig leaves.

Despite the protest from without, the fig leaves stayed on.

It was on the ground, under a fig leaf, where she had been looking for fruit.

But these explanations are usually fig leaves, so why even bother?

Many fig leaves in business exist to keep lawyers at bay.

Did he want to go to the party in a fig leaf, a tiger skin, nothing at all?

He sees the science as a fig leaf for Glenn.

But these measures are fig leaves for a plan that would have very little impact on tobacco use.

That gave enough House members the fig leaf they needed yesterday to kill the waiting period.

But past Soviet behavior belies this need for fig leaves.

Taking fig leaf along with insulin might cause your blood sugar to be too low.

I think it is not just a fig leaf.

Without the screen of a fig leaf, it might be easier for all parties to see who is getting the green.

This is often simply used as a fig leaf, which is not the idea.

Right now, the Beat poet is wearing his literary fig leaf.

For the long run on Medicare, everybody's fig leaf will be another commission to make recommendations.