sticking plaster
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sticking plaster
noun sticking plasters · stick plaster
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An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.
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.
Similar: adhesive bandage, band-aid, Elastoplast
- An inadequate solution to a serious problem. 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.
Talk about this word "sticking plaster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sticking%20plaster. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sticking plaster. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sticking%20plaster "sticking plaster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sticking%20plaster.Cite this
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title = {sticking plaster},
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