Usually means: Maintain image despite underlying issues.
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  1. keep up appearances: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep up appearances: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep up appearances: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keep up appearances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. keep up appearances: Wiktionary
  6. keep up appearances: Dictionary.com
  7. keep up appearances: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. keep up appearances: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (keep up appearances)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To artificially maintain an outward sign of normality; to maintain an appearance of wealth, comfort, or propriety.

Similar:
save appearances, pretend, fake it, come, look, play-act, make semblant, look the part, attitudinize, look one's best, more...

Opposite:
being oneself, being honest, being genuine

Phrases:
to keep up appearances, more...

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Similar:
save appearances, pretend, fake it, come, look, play-act, make semblant, look the part, attitudinize, look one's best, more...

Opposite:
being oneself, being honest, being genuine

Phrases:
to keep up appearances, more...



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