Cover Your Tracks.
English
idiom
To hide the evidence of what you have done.
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To hide the evidence of what you have done.
Trusted by1.5M+English learners & teachers worldwide
To hide the evidence of something you did, so nobody can prove it.
When you cover your tracks, you remove or change the traces you left behind — files, messages, records.
It almost always suggests the person knew they were doing something wrong.
"Sweep Something Under the Rug"
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Hide a problem instead of dealing with it
"Throw Someone Off the Scent"
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Send someone searching the wrong direction
"Cover Your Tracks"
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Hide evidence of what you did
Those files were deleted the day after the question was raised.
Someone's covering their tracks. Let's stop guessing and pull the access log.
Why did you clear the whole browser history on Sunday?
I know how that looks, like I'm covering my tracks. Let me explain properly.
How did they finally catch him?
He covered his tracks everywhere except the parking receipts.
