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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. [Shakespeare] (What matters is what something is, not what it is called. [Phrase Finder] ) Possibly inappropriate for an attempted cover-up. If the focus is on the attempt to disguise what's about to follow, sugaring the pill. fits:
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It means: what matters is what something is, not what it's called. I feel like this phrase has a very positive connotation to it: what matter is not what this fantastic thing is called, it matters what it is. Is there another common phrase, metaphor, or ...
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes. Without that title. "Call a rose something else, it still smells good. If Romeo had a new name, he'd still be just as perfect." ("Owes" in this case means "owns".)
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" except, perhaps, to a pedant. The assignation of a name to anything, concrete or abstract, is a social contract. As educated elites, experts certainly have their input, but if enough people want to call a Douglas fir by that name, even though it's not really a fir tree, then so be it.
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES - "Some unfortunate people never take their rose-colored glasses off, but everyone wears these spectacles occasionally. This attitude of cheerful optimism, of seeing everything in an attractive, pleasant light, has always been with us, while the expression itself goes back to at least 1861, when it is first recorded in 'Tom ...
The origin of the phrase doesn't have any racial connotations (as jwpat7 and FumbleFingers showed), but you should be careful how you use it because of the derogatory meaning of the word spade. In some situations it would be clear that only the original meaning was intended, but in other situations it might be misinterpreted as wordplay on both ...
Have any of my suggestions helped you? Has any of my suggestions helped you? The first seems more natural to me; but the second is possible, and implies that only one of them could have helped. But anyone is syntactically singular, so. Has anyone seen it? is natural, not *have anyone seen it?.
+1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other symbols.
In my opinion, just because "an other" is "vanishingly rare", that doesn't make its usage "unacceptable". In my situation, which is advising (via a letter) a candidate for an employment position who has not been chosen, it doesn't seem appropriate for me to tell him that "another" candidate has been selected, but it does seem appropriate for me to tell him that "an other" candidate has been ...
I do think there is a difference between 'in the name' and 'under the name'. For instance, the secretary calls the hotel and asks to make a reservation in the name of her boss Mr.Cullen. On the other hand, let's imagine I go to the conference and I make my reservation or get registered under the name of my company MTC. That's how I see it.