So, the child benefit cut was always something of a fig leaf.

"There will be a fig leaf, so people can say we are doing something to control costs," he said.

So the whole job creation thing was a fig leaf.

It was on the ground, under a fig leaf, where she had been looking for fruit.

That gave enough House members the fig leaf they needed yesterday to kill the waiting period.

Did he want to go to the party in a fig leaf, a tiger skin, nothing at all?

Because he cannot tell a fig leaf from a real concession.

He couldn't imagine what had possessed her to give him a fig leaf in the first place.

"But isn't it really a fig leaf to cover up someone's political motivation?"

He sees the science as a fig leaf for Glenn.