hide behind
Verb
Meaning
(transitive) To use someone or something as a shield in order to avoid taking responsibility for something; to avoid attention by using someone or something as a shield.
Don't hide behind your spokesman, speak for yourself!
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hide, behind.
Don't hide behind that rock, come out in the open!
Examples
It's so ironical. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren't any.
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
The devil likes to hide behind a cross.
You can't hide behind your finger.
You cannot hide behind your finger.