Meaning of sticking plaster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.
   British, New-Zealand
2. An inadequate solution to a serious problem.
   idiomatic, informal

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Examples

“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.”

“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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