The phrase "putting lipstick on a pig" comes to mind.
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It's what we call at our company putting lipstick on a pig.
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There's an acknowledgement – I'm seeing a symbol of putting lipstick on a mirror.
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However, this isn't transforming healthcare, it's putting lipstick on a pig in my opinion.
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I can't see this as anything more than putting lipstick on what will be a U.S. withdrawal.
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Creative talent is needed to create AR and VR-native experiences, as opposed to putting lipstick on 2D.
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Putting them together is like putting lipstick on a pig, then allowing that pig to beat you to death.
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This, however, is putting lipstick on a pig, providing some minimal due process and potentially some benefits for drivers.
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It may expand the accompanying political declaration about the future, but that would amount to putting lipstick on a pig.
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"This whole conference is about putting lipstick on the pig that is the one percent," Joey Hansom from Godmother tells me.
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"It's literally putting lipstick on a pig," said Stephen Carpenter-Israel, president of Buyer's Edge, a brokerage that only represents buyers.
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"There's an old Texas saying: putting lipstick on the pig," Arrington, a member of the House Ways and Means Committe, said.
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Their challenge has been to distinguish those that deserve the fintech premium from others that are simply putting lipstick on a lender.
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What makes me confident is the stuff around it — the artifice, putting lipstick on it, dressing up the abstract painting to make it presentable.
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"This bill is like putting lipstick on a pig," said Cathy Callaway, state and local campaign director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
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During the 2015 indictments against FIFA, it's half-hearted support for the Women's World Cup in Canada looked very much like putting lipstick on a pig.
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Thomas Massie of Kentucky said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that more gun laws are "false senses of security," adding that increased background checks are like putting "lipstick on a pig."
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" Thomas Ricks told me that McMaster surely approached his job in good faith, but added, "Watching him, I came to believe that, at a certain point, he was just putting lipstick on a pig.
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And if you're bummed you're not getting full tubes of these retro shades, don't fret — ask any makeup artist and they'll tell you putting lipstick on with a brush is the only way to do it.
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" One former Backpage moderator, identified in the report as Employee C, testified that she saw her role as "putting lipstick on a pig, because when it came down to it, it was what the business was about.
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Drawing from memories of her own teenage years, Ms. Frizzell blows a raspberry at age-appropriateness (Jessie is 16), putting lipstick on the piggish behavior of the typically male-dominated smutfest to create something tacky yet weirdly tender.
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"The House Republican repeal bill is an especially bad deal for New Yorkers, and this backroom amendment is nothing more than politicians putting lipstick on a pig," said Tyler Law, a spokesman for the House Democrats' campaign arm.
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Aldo's more active head movement and crisper punching form aided him in the fight, and his choice to target Stephens's body while Stephens was head hunting obviously paid off, but to pretend that Aldo gave Stephens a lesson in scientific striking would be putting lipstick on a pig.
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The alternative is for Mr Johnson to renege on those Eurosceptic commitments, get some wriggle-room from the EU on the backstop—putting lipstick on the pig, as a putative attempt to improve on the deal his predecessor did with the EU is widely described—and use his undoubted charm to sell to Parliament the porker that it refused three times to buy from his predecessor.
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Lipstick,Yael Amsterdamer, Susan B. Davidson, Daniel Deutch, Tova Milo, and Julia Stoyanovich. Putting lipstick on a pig: Enabling database-style workflow provenance. In Proc. of VLDB, August 2011.
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Such an abused person might say "I'm not taking any more of your shit!" to indicate that they will no longer tolerate such treatment. Whale shit is sometimes used to describe a person who inspires displeasure or disgust, as in: "You're lower than whale shit at the bottom of the ocean!" “You can’t polish shit” is a popular aphorism roughly equivalent to "putting Lipstick on a pig" (although "a turd" is more commonly used). However, the TV show Mythbusters showed you can, in fact, polish a turd.
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Gregan signed for newly promoted Premier League club West Bromwich Albion on 3 August 2002 on a four- year contract for a fee of £2 million. Pundit Rodney Marsh thought the signing uninspired, and commented that it was "like putting lipstick on a pig". Gregan made his debut against Manchester United at Old Trafford on 17 August 2002. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1–0 home win over Southampton on 14 September 2002, after goalkeeper Paul Jones failed to hold on to Gregan's 40-yard shot.
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Using tramps as similes ("That's like putting lipstick on a dead tramp and calling it a supermodel"), the phrase moc-moc-a-moc and irrelevant sentences which read merely "And!" were all elements of the Digitiser lexicon. It was common practice for Digitiser to mock the names of contributors to its letters page. Generally, the more obvious the better (for example a reader with the surname "Major" could well find themselves being referred to as "John"). Notable bits of name-calling included Digitiser viewer Matt Gander being rechristened "non- shiny goose", and a Mr. Tedesco being called "Safedeway", alluding to supermarket chains Tesco and Safeway.
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" The park land was previously used for surface parking, and contained an early "food cart institution", the Snow White House crêperie. Developer Tom Moyer wanted to redevelop the block since the 1970s. The City Club of Portland held a significant meeting in 1992 about the fate of the Central Park Blocks, also called the Commercial Park Blocks. Moyer and the PDC opposed "the downtown parking magnate" Greg Goodman's plans to turn the block into a 550-space 12-story parking structure in 1995, which was to be called the Park Avenue Plaza. Neil Goldschmidt said the parking structure would be "like putting lipstick on a dead corpse" and Bill Naito said that a "12-story garage won't go away.
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In this regard, her inexperience was also a liability when McCain's age and health were factored in—there was a higher-than-normal probability of Palin succeeding to the presidency and many moderates and independents chafed at this idea. "One 72 year old heartbeat away from the presidency" became a popular anti-GOP slogan. Late night TV host David Letterman jokingly referred to Palin as resembling "a slutty flight attendant" and even Obama himself on a September 9 speech referred to the Alaska governor's policies as "the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig". She also came under attack on everything from her 17-year-old daughter giving birth to a child out of wedlock to actively participating in hunting moose and other animals.
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She declined, and went to First National Pictures, which agreed to her terms.The New York Times, October 29, 1925 In 1919, Pickford, along with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, formed the independent film production company United Artists. Through United Artists, Pickford continued to produce and perform in her own movies; she could also distribute them as she chose. In 1920, Pickford's film Pollyanna grossed around $1,100,000. The following year, Pickford's film Little Lord Fauntleroy was also a success, and in 1923, Rosita grossed over $1,000,000 as well. During this period, she also made Little Annie Rooney (1925), another film in which Pickford played a child, Sparrows (1926), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and My Best Girl (1927), a romantic comedy featuring her future husband Buddy Rogers. lobby card for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) The arrival of sound was her undoing. Pickford underestimated the value of adding sound to movies, claiming that "adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo". She played a reckless socialite in Coquette (1929), her first talkie, a role for which her famous ringlets were cut into a 1920s' bob. Pickford had already cut her hair in the wake of her mother's death in 1928.
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