to hide your personal or financial problems from other people by continuing to live and behave in the same way that you did in the past.

Simply keeping up appearances was stretching their resources to the limit.

• a rap sheet
• a rat fink
• a rat race
• a raw deal
• a ray of sunshine
• are all over
• a red cent
• a red eye
• a red herring
• a red-letter day
• a reign of terror
• a Renaissance man
• a rent boy
• are someone all over
• are something all over
• a revolving door
• Are you a man or a mouse?
• argue the toss
• argy-bargy
• a rich seam
• a ringside seat
• a ringside view
• a rip-off
• a ripple effect
• a rite of passage