cover one's back
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
cover one's back (third-person singular simple present covers one's back, present participle covering one's back, simple past and past participle covered one's back)
- (informal, figuratively) To protect or look out for oneself.
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Further reading[edit]
- “cover one's back”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “cover your back cover your rear”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “cover your backside behind rear”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.