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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gloss over

 
 

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Gloss over

gloss over
If you gloss over a problem, a mistake, or an embarrassing moment, you try and make it seem unimportant by ignoring it or by dealing with it very quickly. Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
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  {v.} To try to make what is wrong or bad seem right or not important; try to make a thing look easy; pretend about; hide. * /Billy broke a window and Mother tried to gloss it over by saying it wouldn't cost much to have it fixed, but Father spanked Billy anyway./ * /John glossed over his mistake by saying that everybody did the same thing./ ...
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