| 词汇 | cover your tracks |
| 释义 | Idiom cover your trackscover (your) tracks to hide or destroy anything that shows where you have been or what you have been doing.Roberts covered his tracks by throwing the knife in the river and burying his wife's body miles from his home. cover (one's) tracks (up)1. Literally, to conceal one's footprints, typically to avoid being followed. Those hounds can track us across rivers, so covering our tracks won't do any good. 2. To conceal the evidence of one's (usually nefarious) actions. We need to cover our tracks before someone traces the bank robbery back to us. I destroyed those incriminating documents to cover my tracks up. cover your tracksCOMMON If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of what they have done or where they have been. He was a very clever man who never took a chance, a man who totally covered his tracks. The killer may have returned to the scene of the crime to cover his tracks. Note: Tracks here are footprints. cover your tracksconceal evidence of what you have done.cover your ˈtracksbe careful not to leave any signs of something secret or illegal that you have been doing: He didn’t want his wife to know he’d met an old girlfriend so he invented a story to cover his tracks. |
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