whitewash something
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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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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