"Polish a turd" redirects here. For the Japanese art form, see dorodango.
The phrase to put "lipstick on a pig" means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings. There are many phrases using pigs, monkeys, or swine, dating back to biblical times. This phrase seems to have been coined in the 20th century but did not become a common phrase until the 21st century and is often used in politics.
The phrase "lipstick on a pig" has been used for centuries in various forms, including "you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear." The use of "lipstick on a pig" in its current form dates back to at least 1946, but it gained widespread use in political rhetoric during the 2008 United States presidential election, where it was used to criticize spin and to imply that an opponent (beginning with Sarah Palin) is attempting to repackage established policies and present them as new. It has since been used in political discourse in various countries, sometimes causing controversy.
The phrase to put "lipstickonapig" means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings...
Clarke is the author of LipstickonaPig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game (2006, ISBN 0-7432-7116-5), a book about tackling 21st...
to "putting Lipstickonapig" (although "a turd" is more commonly used). However, the TV show Mythbusters showed you can, in fact, polish a turd. Shit...
2008). "Sen. Barack Obama: The presidential hopeful tackles the "lipstickonapig" controversy and other campaign topics". Late Show with David Letterman...
during the campaign for referring to Labour leader Jacinda Ardern as "lipstickonapig", suggesting that the new leader had style but not substance. Morgan...
was criticised by a Christian Democrat opposition politician as not what immigrants needed, and by one immigrant as "lipstickonapig". The Office has...
Good Morning America and Real Time with Bill Maher, saying he "put lipstickonapig". Fearing that anti-German sentiments during and after World War II...
Jonathon (July 18, 2004). "ROAD AND RAIL; LipstickOnaPig". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2021...
Paramount+ on June 27, 2023. Pig Goat Banana Cricket focuses on the titular quartet, a group of anthropomorphic best friends and roommates: Pig, who is obsessed...
slogan That one: McCain's reference to Obama during the 2nd debate. Lipstickonapig: Obama used this phrase to insinuate that any changes that McCain...
of The Profit," a similar show also broadcast by CNBC, and was inspired by a variety of property flipping shows on HGTV and A&E. On April 16, 2019, it...
November 19, 2012. Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2013. "LipstickOnAPig". Soaps.com. December 3, 2012. Retrieved July...
Davidson, Daniel Deutch, Tova Milo, and Julia Stoyanovich. Putting lipstickonapig: Enabling database-style workflow provenance. In Proc. of VLDB, August...
Lipstick feminism (also known as girlie feminism or girly feminism) is a variety of feminism that seeks to embrace traditional concepts of femininity,...
shippers were used on the heavy freights in the 1990s. Because of coupling limits, only single units were used. "LipstickonaPig?". Railway Age. 2001...
After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show...
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture is a 2005 book by Ariel Levy that critiques the highly sexualized American culture in which...
putting lipstickonapig". Gregan made his debut against Manchester United at Old Trafford on 17 August 2002. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1–0...
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