Idiom
cover someone's ass
Vulgar
Meaning
To make preparations or take precautions to ensure that a person is not blamed or punished for his or her conduct.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I lied to the boss to cover my friend's ass.”
“When the project failed, he tried to cover his manager's ass by blaming the software instead of the team.”
“Despite the mounting evidence of negligence, the senior partners scrambled to cover their colleague's ass before the internal audit began.”
Examples
simple
“I lied to the boss to cover my friend's ass.”
contextual
“When the project failed, he tried to cover his manager's ass by blaming the software instead of the team.”
complex
“Despite the mounting evidence of negligence, the senior partners scrambled to cover their colleague's ass before the internal audit began.”
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