President Barack Obama used the phrase "like putting lipstick on a pig," which basically means to disguise the reality of a situation by making a superficial change, to describe some of John McCain's campaign promises. In light of Palin's trademark joke, as well as the delicacy of having...
President Barack Obama used the phrase "like putting lipstick on a pig," which basically means to disguise the reality of a situation by making a superficial change, to describe some of John McCain's campaign promises. In light of Palin's trademark joke, as well as the delicacy of having...
President Barack Obama used the phrase "like putting lipstick on a pig," which basically means to disguise the reality of a situation by making a superficial change, to describe some of John McCain's campaign promises. In light of Palin's trademark joke, as well as the delicacy of having...
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But that’s more than our concern here. Here, and for now, we’ll just bother with the semantics involving “putting lipstick on a pig.” And that phrase means, again and to borrow a Chinesevernacular16, putting a trunk on a pig to make it elephant-like. ...
Time is ticking for Democrats to claim some kind of victory on health care legislation, as polls show a public increasingly disillusioned with what is being passed off as reform. So now Democrats are trying to rename the public option in the hope no one will notice. In fact, their new ...
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But Obama’s idiom itself, “putting lipstick on a pig”, is an innocent, commonly used phrase which means to dress something up. Anyways, with the smear from the lipstick, the American election campaign has taken another nasty turn, and according to the Economist (America not quite at ...