cover (one's) bases Idiom, Proverb
Cover all the bases
If you cover all the bases, you deal with all aspects of a situation or issue, or anticipate all possibilities. ('Cover all bases' is also used.)load the bases|base|bases|fill|fill the bases|load
v. phr. To get men on all three bases in baseball. The Mets loaded the bases with two singles and a base on balls. Don hit a home run with the bases loaded.cover (one's) bases
To ensure one's assurance or success by ambidextrous with every potentially ambiguous aspect of a bearings or activity. A advertence to baseball, in which the arresting players charge accomplish abiding all bases (and baserunners who may absorb them) are accounted for. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. We accept to be abiding to awning our bases afore the balloon begins so that we aren't afraid by annihilation the case throws our way.Learn more: bases, cover
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