cover one's back
оградить себя от грядущих неприятностей
Unfortunately Mr. Quirk was not able to cover his back when dealing with the racketeers.
Другие идиомы:
- get off (someone's) back
- back to the salt mines
- back on one's feet
- back down
- cover a lot of ground
- cover ground
- break the back of (something)
- back-to-back
- get (someone's) back up
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- back out (of something)
- back to square one
- back to basics
- cover all of one's bases
- stab (someone) in the back