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«Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.»
«[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.»
«I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
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fig, fig leaf, leaf, Other side, price tag, tag, tags, tag on, The other side, turned
«Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: / So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.»
«And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: / And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.»
«Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: / So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.»
«And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.»
«And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.»
«And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons»
«I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.»
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