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under cover

Adjective

Meaning

under cover (comparative more under cover, superlative most under cover)

protected by a covering or shelter
When it started to rain we got under cover.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours. John Muir

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. Vivienne Westwood

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. Hugo Hamilton

He who in under cover when it rains is a great fool if he stirs. Italian Proverb

The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass. French Proverb

Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box. German Proverb

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