idiomWhen ananimalorpersonbreakscover, theyrunout of ahidingplace.从隐蔽处突然出来,冲出躲藏处SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesRevealing secrets & becoming known
anti-secrecy
backchannel
bare
blowsomeone'scoveridiom
blow/take the lid offsomethingidiom
break
declassify
hold
huddle
kiss
Queen's evidence
rat
rat onsomeone/something
reintroduce
revealingly
revelatory
state's evidence
tip
transpire
unload
See more results ?(Definition ofbreak coverfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)Examples from literature
He's broken cover in this direction in spite of us.
I broke cover, and ran after him.
It is as difficult to get them outside the inner ramparts as it is to make an old fox break cover.
The moment the volley was fired at the major, the assailants broke cover, and the fields were alive with men.