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