painted rust
when they give a broken bridge a shiny new coat of paint instead of fixing it because the city is too broke to do anything smart
The mayor said it looked like a brand-new bridge. I said it looked like a dead fish.
They painted the rusted-out train tracks and called it progress. Progress is just fancy words for stupid stuff.
I asked why we didn’t fix the tunnel, and they said, 'Why spend money when you can spend it on paint?'