Learn the English Phrases "to cover your tracks" and "to cover all the bases"

In this English lesson, I wanted

to help you learn the English

phrase to cover your tracks.

Now, if you do something

and you don't want anyone

to know you did it, you might want

to cover your tracks.

Let's say there are cookies

in the kitchen and I'm

not supposed to eat them.

I might go to the tray of cookies

and eat two and then I might move

the other cookies so it looks

like they're filling the plate.

Still.

I'm trying to cover my tracks.

You also hear this phrase

when you watch a show

where there are criminals.

After a criminal commits

a crime, they might try

to cover their tracks.

They might put everything

back the way it was.

Let me see, let's say they were

stealing money from a safe.

They would probably close the safe

and make everything

in the place where they are stealing

the money from look the same

way as when they got there.

They try to cover their tracks.

The other phrase I wanted

to teach you today is the phrase

to cover all the bases.

This means to make sure that you

do everything in a situation.

Let's say you're working

on a project at work.

You want to make sure that

you cover all the bases.

When you work on that project,

you want to make sure that

manufacturing goes well.

You want to make sure

that design goes well.

You want to make sure that you have

thought about and taken care of all

of the aspects of the project.

You want to cover all the bases.

So to review to cover your

tracks means to make it look

like you haven't been there.

I've actually done that after

I've eaten cookies before.

I rearranged them on the plate so it

looks like the plate is still full.

And then to cover all the bases means

to make sure that you take care

of all aspects of a project.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from a previous video.

This comment is from Minosmil.

I can imagine Bob and Jen going on

a trip, but I'm not able to picture

Bob the Canadian without pizza.

And my response it would

be hard! Right now.

We make homemade pizza

for supper once a week.

It's my favorite night.

Yes.

So thanks Minosmil

for that comment.

Yes, I can imagine going on a trip.

If I go on a trip, I'm hoping

wherever I go that there's pizza

there because I still like it.

What an amazing food.

Crust, cheese, sauce, some meat

on top of it's just amazing.

Hey, what was I going to say?

I was going to say something else.

I can't remember

Jen and I going on a trip.

That should happen at some point

in our lives, probably.

So here's what I wanted to show you.

We're a little behind right now

in this part of Ontario, Canada.

If you look here on the lilac tree,

you'll see they're just starting

to get their little flowers.

And usually this has

happened already.

I should pause a little bit

and stop moving so you can see.

And then over here

we have some purple ones.

There's actually not a lot

on this tree either.

Hopefully I'm not too close.

Hopefully you can see, if I go

too close, it doesn't focus.

So hopefully in the next little while

things warm up a bit.

Jen and I need to start our

farmers market in four weeks

and things aren't growing as

fast as they normally grow.

We had a burst of growth,

like the daffodils started

growing really well.

If you look over here, you can see

there are some daffodils there.

These aren't ones that we grow

and sell, but definitely it needs

to warm up a bit around here.

The trees are starting

to get leaves, so that's cool.

But, yeah, it's like, you can see

I have my sweater on again today.

So it's another cool day here.

And yeah, we need the sun to shine.

We've gotten plenty of rain, but we

need the sun to shine and we need

flowers to start growing.

Hopefully that happens soon.

Anyways, see you in a few days

with another short English lesson.

Thanks for watching this one

and have a good weekend.

Bye.