draw a veil over (something)

1. to hide something.

Dense fog drew a veil over the landscape.

2. to avoid talking about something.

I think we should draw a veil over this conversation and pretend it never happened.

Related vocabulary: keep something under wraps

• feel something in bones
• feel something in your bones
• feel the pinch
• feel under the weather
• feel up
• feel way
• feel your oats
• feel your way
• feet of clay
• feet on the ground
• femme fatale
• fender bender
• fend for
• fend for yourself
• fend off
• fend off someone
• fend off something
• ferret out
• ferret out something
• fever pitch
• few and far between
• few fries short of a Happy Meal
• fiddle away
• fiddle away something
• fiddle while Rome burns