dress something up as something
collocation
to try to make something seem better or more attractive than it really is:
Politicians tried to dress up the bill as a bold new strategy for combating poverty.政治家们试图把这个议案美化成与贫困作斗争的一项大胆的新策略。
This is just showbusiness trivia dressed up as serious news.
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dress
The scammers buy cheap generic drugs and dress them up as more expensive brand-name versions.
He dismissed the agreement as propaganda dressed up as statesmanship.
They tried to dress up the chaos as a well-ordered decision.
This seems to me to be a soap opera dressed up as a serious documentary.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
bluff someone into something/doing something
changeling
cry
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
feign
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-act
play-acting
professed
purport
quack
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