break cover

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Verb

break cover

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break,‎ cover.
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) to disclose one's real thoughts and intentions
    Government MPs sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover.
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