Painting the roses red
When you mess up so bad, you try to fix it with a bunch of nonsense, like a kid trying to cover up a broken leg with glitter.
He tried to hide his mistake by yelling, 'I’m painting the roses red!' like it was some kind of magic.
She spilled coffee on her boss’s shirt and then said she was painting the roses red to make it better.
He tried to fix his broken phone by drawing roses on it, claiming he was painting the roses red.