He rubbed its side and sure enough, a genie materialized. By tomorrow afternoon, you will have received all these gifts. When John returned home from work the next evening, he excitedly asked his mother if anything had been delivered. It's been an unusual day. At 2 pm, a 55 gallon drum of chicken soup arrived.
Whitewash is a cheap, watered down kind of paint.
It was made famous here in Missouri by native son Mark Twain in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has come to mean a kind of cover up, a veneer, a false face. It is a temporary covering to mask something that remains fundamentally unchanged. It looks and acts like paint, but it doesn't last. Whitewash is a bit of paint mixed with a gallon of water.