"maintain appearances" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maintains appearances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maintaining appearances",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maintained appearances",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maintained appearances",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "maintain appearances (third-person singular simple present maintains appearances, present participle maintaining appearances, simple past and past participle maintained appearances)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair",
          "text": "Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world, involve being in the right rooms, overhearing the right things, and more or less maintaining appearances.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of keep up appearances"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "keep up appearances",
          "keep up appearances#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "keep up appearances"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maintain appearances"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maintains appearances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maintaining appearances",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maintained appearances",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maintained appearances",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "maintain appearances (third-person singular simple present maintains appearances, present participle maintaining appearances, simple past and past participle maintained appearances)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair",
          "text": "Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world, involve being in the right rooms, overhearing the right things, and more or less maintaining appearances.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of keep up appearances"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "keep up appearances",
          "keep up appearances#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "keep up appearances"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maintain appearances"
}