fig leaf

Since the special session agenda was unveiled, Democrats have been calling the letter a fig leaf that provides political cover for the partisan motivation behind the redistricting effort.

Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures are nothing more than a fig leaf for pay offs from foreign nationals.

Even as a fig leaf, it is surprisingly persuasive: who could argue against “efficiency,” that core value of free-market capitalism?

Her supporters say those critiques are a fig leaf for the sexism they’ve endured their entire careers.

But for those strongly opposed to the AfD she is a fig leaf or - as one Social Democrat put it - a "wolf in sheep's clothing".