keep+up+appearance

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• keep up appearances — To keep up an outward show, esp one that belies, or is intended to disguise, the inward reality • • • Main Entry: ↑appear * * * keep up appearances phrase to pretend that everything is good, for example with your marriage or your financial… …   Useful english dictionary

• appearance — appearance, look, aspect, semblance denote the outward show presented by a person or thing. Appearance often carries no additional implications {judge not according to the appearance Jn 7:24} {in drawing, represent the appearances of things,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying —   …   Wikipedia

• appearance — [ə pir′əns] n. [ME aparaunce < OFr aparance < LL apparentia < apparere, APPEAR] 1. the act or an instance of appearing 2. the look or outward aspect of a person or thing 3. anything that appears; thing seen 4. Archaic an apparition 5 …   English World dictionary

• appearance — ► NOUN 1) the way that someone or something looks or seems. 2) an act of appearing. ● keep up appearances Cf. ↑keep up appearances …   English terms dictionary

• keep the flag flying — ▪ To (continue to) show support for or allegiance to one s own country, organization, etc ▪ To put in an appearance or otherwise ensure that one, or the nation, firm, etc one represents, is not overlooked ● flag * * * keep the ˈflag flying idiom… …   Useful english dictionary

• appearance — (n.) late 14c., visible state or form, figure; mere show, from Anglo Fr. apparaunce, O.Fr. aparance appearance, display, pomp (13c.), from L. apparentia, abstract noun from aparentem, pp. of apparere (see APPEAR (Cf. appear)). Meaning semblance… …   Etymology dictionary

• keep up appearances — ► keep up appearances maintain an impression of wealth or well being. Main Entry: ↑appearance …   English terms dictionary

• appearance — ap|pear|ance W2 [əˈpıərəns US əˈpır ] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(way somebody/something looks)¦ 2¦(somebody takes part in a public event)¦ 3¦(something new starts to exist)¦ 4¦(arrival)¦ 5 keep up appearances 6 for appearances sake/for the sake of appearances… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• appearance — noun 1 way that sb/sth looks ADJECTIVE ▪ attractive, handsome, youthful ▪ distinctive, odd, strange, striking ▪ dishevelled/disheveled …   Collocations dictionary

• appearance — /euh pear euhns/, n. 1. the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders meeting. 2. the state,… …   Universalium