stick plaster

Noun

 * 1) * 2012, Ben Wilson, quoted in "Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog'", :
 * For the past four years, government and regulators have been trying to treat the wounds exposed by the financial crisis with stick plasters.
 * 1) * 2012, Ben Wilson, quoted in "Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog'", :
 * For the past four years, government and regulators have been trying to treat the wounds exposed by the financial crisis with stick plasters.
 * For the past four years, government and regulators have been trying to treat the wounds exposed by the financial crisis with stick plasters.