sticking plaster

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

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

词形变化

sticking plasters plural stick plaster alternative,UK
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