Friday, 2 August 2013

Paper over the cracks

Meaning:

  • If you try to paper over the cracks, you try to hide faults or difficulties, often in a hasty or not very successful way.



Example sentence:

They thought they had solved the problem but they had actually only papered over the cracks.



Questions for you to answer:

  1. What happens when you just paper over the cracks?
  2. Have you recently heard of political actions that just tried to paper over the cracks?
  3. Do you think it's good to paper over the cracks in a relationship?

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