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take cover

Idioms  

  1. Seek protection, find a hiding place, as in It started to pour so we took cover under the trees, or He wanted to avoid the reporters so we said he could take cover in our summer cottage. This term uses cover in the sense of “shelter” or “concealment,” a usage dating from the 1400s.

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I ran back to my tree home and tried to take cover under the leaves and branches, but within seconds I was soaked.

From Literature

“Take cover!” the wardens yell.

From Literature

“Get back! Take cover!” the woman yelled.

From Literature

The Skala Regiment shares recent videos taken by their troops on the front line - often having to take cover in buildings from Russian drones.

From BBC

“Drop down to the ground. Take cover underneath a sturdy object like a table. And hold on until all the shaking has stopped,” Wendy Bohon, branch chief of seismic hazards and earthquake engineering at the California Geological Survey, said in a recent social media video.

From Los Angeles Times

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