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:
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- get off (someone's) back
- back to basics
- back in circulation
- cover for (someone)
- have one's back to the wall
- break the back of (something)
- back to square one
- back-to-back
- cover all of one's bases
- back to the salt mines
- back on one's feet
- put one's back into (something)
- cover a lot of ground