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单词 to throw a blanket on
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to throw a blanket on
P4. In figurative phrases with reference to a covering being placed over something as a means of concealing or smothering it, as to throw a curtain over, to throw a blanket on, etc. Cf. to draw (also cast, throw) a veil over at veil n.1 Phrases 4a.
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1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times II. vi. 97 The Dr does him the Good Office to throw a Cloak over the Subornation.
1724 Plain Dealer 27 Mar. They throw a Masque over the Rancour of his Heart.
1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. ii. 163 However plausible may be the veil thus thrown over heterogeneous doctrines, the flimsy artifice is discomposed so soon as [etc.].
1917 N.Y. Times 13 May viii. 14/5 There is no such thing as a fact in this war. Censorships have thrown a curtain over it all.
2011 C. Collins & F. Yeskel Econ. Apartheid in Amer. (new ed.) iv. 116/2 The Fed will usually go back to its role of throwing a blanket on economic growth by raising interest rates.
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