Potemkin village

His experience is nothing but a carbon copy of Potemkin village.

This is the same stratagem as using a Potemkin village.

At a cost of some $400 million, they have created something of a Potemkin village.

It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that.

Having no court "is better than a Potemkin village."

Good thing we didn't stay upstairs in that Potemkin village.

Or is this all a Potemkin village, meant to impress regulators?

But often these performances seemed to be a musical Potemkin village, all surface and not much underneath.

"It was a Potemkin village," he said, confirming what the visitors suspected at the time.

In effect, China has created a Potemkin village of intellectual property protections.