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Example sentences for: cover-your-ass

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Nor is it a standard cover-your-ass prevarication (we are not involved in: the Bay of Pigs invasion/bombing Cambodia/trading arms for Iranian hostages).
The neighbors' comments may also represent a kind of cover-your-ass legal defensiveness.