putting lipstick on a donkey

participating in an ineffective cover-up. trying to make a bad thing look good

George Bush explaining the improvement in the economy was like putting lipstick on a donkey.

by hidef March 29, 2004

putting lipstick on a pig

Political Speak for labeling your campaign with words that dont represent what it stands for.

"Yo, John McCain's putting lipstick on a pig when he calls the same failed Bush policies of the last eight years Change"

by Vinfiz October 27, 2008

putting lipstick on a pig

what the Democrats are doing to their health care bill

Putting lipstick on a pig is insisting that the health care bill be written behind closed doors, using obfuscating language, making deals to buy votes

by Precious Freedom March 3, 2010

putting lipstick on a pig

trying to make the ugly fuck look good

"making cara look hott is like putting lipstick on a pig"

by Willie May 13, 2005

putting lipstick on a pig

Said by Barrack Obama about Sarah Palin, the vicepresident candiate for the Republican party.

"Its like putting lipstick on a pig" - As in, whats the difference between Sarah Palin and a Pig? Answers Lipstick.

by politicalmatt October 24, 2008

Does a chicken have lips?

An indirect way of saying 'yes'.

Person 1: Do you want some red velvet froyo with cheescake chunks?
Person 2: Does a chicken have lips?
Person 1: dafuq?
Person 2: You bet your sweet ass and tits I do!

by Lazaruskid September 2, 2013

lipstick on a pig

(a misogynistic term originally used by some Democrats to insult Sarah Palin during the US presidential campaign of 2008); they didn't like how much make make-up she had on)

a) overkill, when people go over and/or beyond their call of duty or responsibilities, or beyond acceptable socio -moral boundaries when doing something.

b) when people, for whatever reason, go out on a limb, and propose, for their zeitgeist, extremely novel, eccentric, living underwater type ideas for the improvement and/or regeneration of their society

a) I support capital punishment as a principle for certain crimes and under certain conditions, and will not, under any circumstances, go lipstick on a pig and reject the principle of capital punishment itself because I hate lethal injection or lethal gas as a method of execution; or, I might reject the use of capital punishment for a specific case; the moral of the fable is, do not go lip lipstick on a pig and betray your own moral principles.

b) The Philosophes, people such a Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire and Montesquieu, among others, did indeed go lipstick on a pig between the death of Louis XIV and The American Revolution and accidentally ushered in The French Enlightenment

by Uncle Dimma April 18, 2014