"leaf" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So, the child benefit cut was always something of a fig leaf.
- "There will be a fig leaf, so people can say we are doing something to control costs," he said.
- So the whole job creation thing was a fig leaf.
- It was on the ground, under a fig leaf, where she had been looking for fruit.
- That gave enough House members the fig leaf they needed yesterday to kill the waiting period.
- Did he want to go to the party in a fig leaf, a tiger skin, nothing at all?
- Because he cannot tell a fig leaf from a real concession.
- He couldn't imagine what had possessed her to give him a fig leaf in the first place.
- "But isn't it really a fig leaf to cover up someone's political motivation?"
- He sees the science as a fig leaf for Glenn.
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