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单词 put lipstick on a pig
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put lipstick on a pig

informal, chiefly US Make superficial changes to something generally regarded with dislike or disfavour in a fruitless attempt to make it more appealing: you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig any attempt to revise the bill would amount to putting lipstick on a pig...
  • He also said he wants the focus to be on the issues not on, quote, "lipstick on a pig stuff."
  • He likened their effect on the team to "putting lipstick on a pig".
  • FBI officials say moving its old system online was too costly, akin to "putting lipstick on a pig."
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