cover one's tracksとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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)

1. (figuratively) To conceal how one has 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]

2. (figuratively) To conceal, hide or destroy evidence of one's actions or identity.