Examples of using Fig leaf in English and their translations into Russian
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It's a fig leaf.
Exactly. $50 million ransom is just a fig leaf.
It's also the fig leaf they need.
When you go back to the Vatican all set to legitimize Bash,you need to give them a fig leaf.
That is the fig leaf with which it covers itself.
Godiva didn't have a fig leaf.
Shaw uses Pike as a fig leaf, she gets out of committee 11 to seven.
Milles's sculptures sometimes offended American sensibilities, and he had a'fig leaf' maker on retainer.
I can't look like a fig leaf for some risky scheme to shred Social Security.
The Archons simply play with people's faith,using it as a fig leaf for hiding their true intentions.
Putin's fig leaf does not cover any longer the Russian direct and massive military involvement in this conflict.
But it was all a lie,just a fig leaf for your guilt.
Well, because at this time Russians became the victim of the tragedy, French authorities can, in the apt words of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov,hide behind the fig leaf of democracy.
If I hear one more gossip columnist use democracy as a fig leaf, I'm gonna eat an IBM Selectric.
The humanitarian assistance which has been provided by the international community under the most difficult circumstances, as essential as it is,must not become a fig leaf for our conscience.
The Secretary-General recently called attention to what he called"fig leaf democracies". The fig leaf of elections does not by itself turn a dictatorship into a democracy.
The county prosecutor and his wife, the a.D.A., they went through the motions, butjudge Dolan shut us down, hiding behind the fig leaf of Jersey's stringent anti-fraud statutes.
While entering Europe, paulownia was given more aliases- The Tree of Adam- in associationwith the fig tree; according to legend the first man, Adam, used a fig leaf for garments, it's because the Europeans likened the leaves of paulownia to the fig leaves; and Foxglove- in Great Britain foxglove flower call the digitalis, because the places where digitalis grows, are the favorite hiding places of the foxes, and the blossoms of paulownia are similar to those of digitalis.
Yet the traditional Biblical subject is brought nearer to modernity with two kitsch details- Eve, instead of a fig leaf, is shielded by an image of scissors, and Adam, by a spoon.
It is very clear to us all that for all this time he has only taken the gun out of its holster andthat the olive branch has really been a fig leaf to obstruct and hide his rejectionism.
The artist describes the exhibition andits title:"The word mercy is so all-embracing that talking about it would take the force from it- the fig leaf falls from the loins and the remaining does not matter.
In a move full of irony and by misappropriating the names of the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development(IGAD), some countries hostile to Eritrea, for crimes that it had not committed against Somalia,have been trying to use the Somali fig leaf to persuade the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Eritrea.
The plaster fig leaves were added later.
Is it true that the waitresses only wear fig leaves at your parties?
Upon eating from the tree of good and evil, Adam and Eve became conscious of their nakedness andmade themselves loin coverings from fig leaves.
The establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner and other steps taken in this regard are just fig leaves that fail to conceal all the embarrassing parts.
Each layer of ingredients is covered with nalca(Chilean rhubarb) leaves, or in their absence, with fig leaves or white cabbage leaves.
Growing vines, more than 5 varieties, about 400 vines(harvest 1.5-2 tons), hazelnuts(harvest 300-500 kg),bay leaf, fig, lemon, orchard.
Direct the blow tube toward the leaves Fig. F.
On the closeness of the end of the human race Jesus Christ offers to judge by the fig tree(fig), let the leaves.