Usually means: Maintaining image despite underlying reality.
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▸ noun:  a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke.
▸ noun:  "Keeping Up Appearances" is the seventh episode of the third season of the American sports drama television series Friday Night Lights, inspired by the 1990 nonfiction book by H. G. Bissinger.


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