Is Sweeping Things Under the Rug?

The small fishing community of Bordeaux in Nigeria recently won an $83 million settlement from the Shell Oil Company due to two oil spills. In other words, sweeping things under the rug means to hide a problem or to try to keep it secret instead of dealing with it. The first time that Chalice came across this expression, it was in a song called Home by Christina Perry. If you want to bring your expression, it can be one of your favorite expressions or an idiom, a saying,. You can send me an email to myflun podcast at gmail.com or I will leave a link in the show notes where you can easily send in your audio message.