paste over the cracks , także: paper over the cracks

They cut through the paper pasted over the cracks, knocked off the bolts, opened the inner pane of the double windows.

His role in Santos's glorious Copa Libertadores campaign merely pasted over the cracks of a stop-start campaign.

Dad hadn't much use for written things-I found half an act of Luciard's Firegiver pasted over the cracks in the waBs of the cupboard my granddad used to store winter clothes in.