"sticking plaster" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Medical equipment",
          "orig": "en:Medical equipment",
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            "Medicine",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3",
          "text": "As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds"
      ],
      "id": "en-sticking_plaster-en-noun-GSwYaTWo",
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          "adhesive",
          "adhesive"
        ],
        [
          "bandage",
          "bandage"
        ],
        [
          "dressing",
          "dressing"
        ],
        [
          "wound",
          "wound"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand, British) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "adhesive bandage"
        },
        {
          "word": "band-aid"
        },
        {
          "word": "Elastoplast"
        },
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          "_dis1": "83 17",
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          "word": "stick plaster"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 June 3, “Network News: Khan agrees £1.6bn \"sticking plaster\" for TfL”, in Rail, page 16",
          "text": "In a statement, Khan called the deal a sticking plaster and said: \"The Government is, in effect, making ordinary Londoners pay the cost for doing the right thing on COVID-19.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An inadequate solution to a serious problem."
      ],
      "id": "en-sticking_plaster-en-noun-D-IXw5Fj"
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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "sticking plaster"
  ],
  "word": "sticking plaster"
}

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      "form": "sticking plasters",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3",
          "text": "As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.",
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        "An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds"
      ],
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          "adhesive"
        ],
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          "bandage",
          "bandage"
        ],
        [
          "dressing",
          "dressing"
        ],
        [
          "wound",
          "wound"
        ]
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        "(New Zealand, British) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "adhesive bandage"
        },
        {
          "word": "band-aid"
        },
        {
          "word": "Elastoplast"
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          "ref": "2020 June 3, “Network News: Khan agrees £1.6bn \"sticking plaster\" for TfL”, in Rail, page 16",
          "text": "In a statement, Khan called the deal a sticking plaster and said: \"The Government is, in effect, making ordinary Londoners pay the cost for doing the right thing on COVID-19.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An inadequate solution to a serious problem."
      ]
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      "word": "stick plaster"
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