English-Italian translations for fig leaf

  • foglia di ficoIl documento del Vertice sulla trasparenza è una foglia di fico. The Summit’s document on openness is a fig leaf. E nemmeno bisogna usare parte delle sovvenzioni per finanziare campagne antifumo, a mo' di foglia di fico, come vuole la Commissione. Part of the subsidies must also not be used for anti-smoking campaigns as a fig leaf, as the Commission wishes. Le rimostranze del Parlamento, per il fatto di essere stato relegato ai margini di questa politica, sono unicamente una foglia di fico per nascondere l’approccio militaristico della relazione. The complaints formulated by Parliament about its being sidelined are merely the fig leaf to conceal the militaristic orientation of the report.

Definition of fig leaf

  • A leaf of the fig plant
  • Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered

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