topdressing in English

noun
1
an application of manure or fertilizer to the surface layer of soil or a lawn.
The compost can be used as mulch around plants, as a top dressing over your lawn which can fertilise the soil, or as a soil improver in vegetable or flower beds.

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1. Tear off the rhetorical topdressing from his speech and you find there's very little solid content.