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cover one's tracks (third-person singular simple present covers one's tracks, present participle covering one's tracks, simple past and past participle covered one's tracks)
- (figuratively) To conceal how one arrived at a certain result or position.
1959 September, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401, photo caption:C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin. [in this case, railway tracks]
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