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sticking plaster en · NOUN
Meanings
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(New-Zealand, UK) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.
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.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
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(idiomatic, informal) An inadequate solution to a serious problem.
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.
2020 June 3, “Network News: Khan agrees £1.6bn "sticking plaster" for TfL”, in Rail, page 16:
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Synonyms
adhesive bandage · band-aid · Elastoplast