| 单词 | to cover one's arse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cover one's arse (also ass, etc.) a. to cover one's arse (also ass, etc.): to take precautionary measures to protect oneself and avoid future blame, criticism, or liability; cf. to cover one's back at Additions 1b.Earlier currency of this sense is apparently implied by the abbreviation CYA in quot. 1959. ΚΠ 1959 W. A. Heflin Aerospace Gloss. 29/1 CYA, ‘Keep your skirts clean’. Pentagon slang.] 1969 Washington Post 18 May (Potomac section) 22/2 Growing heated over what is happening in the Pentagon, over vested interests at large and the men who can think of nothing except to ‘cover their asses’. 1988 D. J. Saari Court & Free-lance Reporter Profession ii. 71 The..tendencies of organizational members to write ‘memos to the file’ in order to cover their behinds. 2002 Weekly World News 8 Jan. 26 Some overcautious companies go way overboard in trying to cover their butts and ward off possible lawsuits. 2014 Fair Disclosure Wire 10 Sept. I kept a pile of liquidity to cover my arse when things got tough. < as lemmas |
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