keep up appearances

Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.

But we'd better talk to keep up appearances, people are looking at us.

There was no use trying even to keep up appearances.

But it was always necessary for us to keep up appearances.

Must keep up appearances, you know, now you're one of the family.

They're also quite poor, and it's been very difficult for them to keep up appearances.

I put keep on keeping up appearances or something, yeah.

We have to keep up appearances at this critical moment.

Have to keep up appearances, after all, though I'd be much more useful back here.

Even in those trying times, the ladies tried to keep up appearances.

Nothing that would show, he was careful to keep up appearances.

I wasn't just trying to keep up appearances through a hard time.

Keep up appearances, so that the public did not become too cautious.

He kept up appearances, going into the office, calling on clients.

We're really just business partners at this point, keeping up appearances for the public.

Jackson looked like a man who, although a prisoner for many months, had tried to keep up appearances.

"To keep up appearances," he said with a cold smile.

By 1996, a core of around 20 drivers kept up appearances.

That way, they'll obey the law, keep up appearances, and also do the right thing.

It is how they earned the extra money to keep up appearances in front of the others.

Anxious to keep up appearances and for the servants not to hear anything.

All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.

She put plastic holly in the windows, to keep up appearances.

Is he trying to keep up appearances with her?

Half of keeping up appearances was in attending to details.