break cover
Leave your hiding
To break cover is to emerge from a hiding place, originally a hunting term for when game flushes from concealment.
The phrase extends to any situation where someone or something hidden becomes visible or exposed: The fugitive broke cover to buy supplies.
In military and surveillance contexts, it means abandoning concealment to move or act openly.
Come out into view
- appearBecome perceptible to sight
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
- come outEmerge or be disclosed
- step forwardMove toward something
show oneself · materialize · come into view · expose oneself · come forth
emerge
Come out into view
step forward · show oneself · materialize · come into view · expose oneself · come forth
flush
Same suit, five cards
flee · game bird · pheasant · grouse · quarry · beater · covert · thicket · underbrush · drive
advance
Move or progress forward
tactical · firefight · ambush · flank · suppression · maneuver · engage · sortie · reconnoiter · patrol
- breakbreakaway, breakdown, breakout, breakthrough, breakup
break covertake cover
Seek immediate protection
go to ground · lie low · go into hiding · keep one's head down · hunker down
break coverstay in character
break, cover, breaks, broke, broken, breaking, breaker, breakage, unbroken