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fig leaf

a covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful a leaf from a fig tree

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silver genital-cover of a girl cover

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The Communists wanted a political system that would allow them to continue in power, with us as a fig leaf, and we were willing to give them some of that for the chance of having Solidarity legal again and of beginning a new process of legal change.
Sadat would, of course, continue to champion the Palestinian cause as the heart of an Arab consensus and sometimes as a fig leaf for his own Egypt-focused foreign policy.
The regime's behavior no doubt fueled the terrifying rise of the Islamic State as well, providing Assad with a trump card in his bid for international support - and Russia with a fig leaf.
The resumption of the peace process with the Palestinian Authority can be only a fig leaf.
Perhaps the government believed that mass protests - with placards denouncing the EU as a fig leaf for revived German domination of Europe - would strengthen its hand.

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