Sentences with phrase «mere fig leaf»

While Moskowitz doesn't name Geidi or her son by name (instead referring to the mother as Jane Doe), the fact that Geidi and her son had appeared on the broadcast essentially made the reference a mere fig leaf.

In U.S. News, Robert Pondiscio worries that some credit recovery programs are a mere fig leaf covering up academic failure and inflating graduation rates.

It was a mere fig leaf to cover the subordination of the territory to Kyiv.