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Meanings of sticking plaster in English

Portuguese
diaquilão
Catalan
tireta

Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds.

diaquilão
Usage of sticking plaster in English
1
Please stop using Diana as a sticking plaster over your eco-warrior hypocrisy.
The Guardian
2
At best it offers a flimsy sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
The Guardian
3
With a few pieces of sticking plaster he drew its edges together.
The Blazed Trail
4
Glue it together or mend it with a piece of sticking plaster?
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
5
The proposal, he says, amounts to a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
The Guardian
6
Shibo volunteered to go downstairs and get him some sticking plaster.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
7
The ruling Whigs were trying to heal an amputation with a sticking plaster.
American empire: blood and iron
8
There has been a sticking plaster put on the problem, said one well-placed insider.
The Guardian
9
Two days later Jeejeebuoy, still covered with sticking plaster but undaunted, left for Persia.
The corfu trilogy
10
He had two strips of sticking plaster over his nose.
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
11
The Tory manifesto pledges would only be a sticking plaster.
The Guardian
12
Crisscross on his plump cheek was some black sticking plaster.
Laughter in the dark
13
Plenty of athletes have arrived in the Russian capital seemingly held together with sticking plaster.
Reuters
14
They are just left with bits of sticking plaster.
The Guardian
15
And tell Miss Wallace to bring her sticking plaster.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
16
HE put some sticking plaster on his fingers, and his friends both came to dinner.
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
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Translations for sticking plaster
Portuguese
diaquilão
Sticking plaster through the time
Sticking plaster across language varieties
United Kingdom
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