cover your tracks

cover your tracks
cover your tracks phrase
to try to hide evidence of something bad that you have done

Whoever had taken the money had covered their tracks pretty well.

Thesaurus: to pretend something is not happening or is not the casesynonym
Main entry: cover

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cover your tracks — see track, 1
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Main Entry:cover
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cover your tracks
: to hide anything that shows where you have been or what you have done so that no one can find or catch you

The culprits covered their tracks well and left little evidence at the crime scene.

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Main Entry:track

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cover your ˈtracks idiom
to try and hide what you have done, because you do not want other people to find out about it

He had attempted to cover his tracks by making her death appear like suicide.

Main entry:coveridiom

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