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Sticking plaster

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds. British, New-Zealand

    "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."

  2. 2
    adhesive tape used in dressing wounds wordnet
  3. 3
    An inadequate solution to a serious problem. idiomatic, informal

    "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."

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