window dressing
- the arrangement or display of goods and trimmings in a store window to attract customers
- statements, actions, or display designed to make something seem better than it really is
See window dressing in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also win·dow dress·ing
nouna. Decorative exhibition of retail merchandise in store windows.
b. Goods and trimmings used in such displays.
- A means of improving appearances or creating a falsely favorable impression: “The realignment … may be more window dressing than a substantive change in how the company does business” (Connie Guglielmo).
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