sticking plaster
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Noun
sticking plaster (plural sticking plasters)
- (New Zealand, British) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds
- Synonyms: adhesive bandage, band-aid, Elastoplast
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
- 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.
- An inadequate solution to a serious problem.
- 2020 June 3, “Network News: Khan agrees £1.6bn "sticking plaster" for TfL”, in Rail, page 16:
- 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.
Translations
adhesive bandage — see band-aid
References
- “sticking plaster”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.