Cover up
Cover up verb - To keep from being publicly known.
Performance and cover up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Performance" instead a noun "Cover up".
Performance
Performance noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
Cover up and performance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cover up" instead a noun "Performance".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- At the end, the gang has her lip-sync in her performance and try to cover up the obvious syncing fails with tons of smoke, but not before Ginger Fox marches "around the stage like an idiot" and flaunts her unshaven armpits.
Source: Horrible / Music - In The Happening, Zooey Deschanel is actually given the line "I don't like to show my emotions," which many suspect was a late addition to the script to try to cover up her less than enthusiastic performance.
Source: Emotionless Girl - However, his performance is pretty lousy; "Kochanski" repeats some phrases Rimmer often uses, is easily bluffed when Lister mentions a fake tryst they had, and then tries to cover up her weird behavior by saying she's "having a woman's period".
Source: Out-of-Character Alert
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