See paper over in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Suggesting the use of wallpaper to cover defects on a wall.",
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"form": "papers over",
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},
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"ref": "2014, Patric Chovanec, at Bloomberg, China's Runaway Train is Running Out of Track:",
"text": "Runaway lending continues, bad debts mount even higher, and the need for more cash to paper over losses becomes that much more acute.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2016, Wesley Widmaier, Economic Ideas in Political Time, →ISBN, page 151:",
"text": "While Volcker briefly submitted his resignation to Treasury Secretary Baker, a new vote would paper over immediate tensions – though Volcker's time as chair was numbered, going forward.",
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"To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success."
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"problem",
"problem"
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"defect",
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"address",
"address"
],
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"veneer",
"veneer"
]
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"(transitive, figurative) To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success."
],
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"word": "under the carpet"
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"word": "cover up"
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"word": "gloss over#English:_cover up, figuratively"
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{
"word": "whitewash"
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"alt": "дело (delo)",
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
"word": "замять"
},
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"sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
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"masculine"
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"word": "empapelar"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
"word": "disipar"
}
]
}
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"word": "paper over"
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"etymology_text": "Suggesting the use of wallpaper to cover defects on a wall.",
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"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Wesley Widmaier, Economic Ideas in Political Time, →ISBN, page 151:",
"text": "While Volcker briefly submitted his resignation to Treasury Secretary Baker, a new vote would paper over immediate tensions – though Volcker's time as chair was numbered, going forward.",
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],
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{
"word": "gloss over#English:_cover up, figuratively"
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{
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"alt": "дело (delo)",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamjatʹ",
"sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
"word": "замять"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "empapelar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
"word": "disipar"
}
],
"word": "paper over"
}
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