cover your tracks

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to try and hide what you have done, because you do not want other people to find out about it

   You didn't cover your tracks. You're easy to trace.

In the movies · 5

• You didn't cover your tracks. You're easy to trace.The Last Boy Scout1991
• No, it's enough.The Way Back2010
• No matter how you cover my tracks, they're still gonna find out about me.The Usual Suspects1995
• You really wanna cover your tracks?Hell or High Water2016
• Don't use the baby to cover your tracks.Knocked Up2007
• You'll have to go in the morning so when it storms later, it'll cover your tracks.A Simple Plan1998
• Or you're the killer, and this whole elaborate monologue is just to cover your tracks.Scream2022

Learn it in full scenes

• The Last Boy Scout1991
  • Joe Comes Home After Midnight
  • Joe Catches Mike in the Closet
  • Joe and Sarah's Bitter Fight

From the same entry

• cover all the bases
• cover your back
• cover a multitude of sins
• cover in
• cover over
• cover up
• cover up
• break cover
• under cover
• under cover of
• under separate cover
• don't judge a book by its cover