put a gloss on sth
to emphasize the good parts of something that has been done, especially those that are to your advantage, and to avoid the bad parts:
Politics is all about putting a good gloss on unpleasant or difficult situations.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stressing & emphasizing
- accent
- accentuate
- drive
- emphasis
- emphatic
- freaking
- fronting
- gloss
- hammer
- hammer sth home idiom
- howling
- insistence
- place
- play
- play sth up
- point
- point sth out
- point sth up
- should
- underline
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