whitewash something

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[whitewash something] {v.}, {informal} To explain a major, national scandal in soothing official terms so as to assure the public that things are under control and there is no need to panic.

* /Many people in the United States believe that President Kennedy's assassination was whitewashed by the Warren Commission./

See: WHITEWASH.

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	{informal} ¹⁴⁰¹ {v.} ⁸⁶⁷

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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