Cover All Your Bases


πŸ—“οΈ Idiom: Cover all Your Bases (v)


πŸ’¬ Meaning

  • To prepare for all possible problems or situations.
  • To take steps to make sure everything is under control.

🧠 Example Sentences

  • The manager asked us to double-check everything, just to cover our bases.
  • By preparing two backup plans, she was covering her bases.
  • The legal team reviewed every detail to cover all their bases before the launch.

πŸ›οΈ Origin

This idiom comes from the sport of baseball. In the game, players must protect all the bases to stop the other team from scoring. In business, it means preparing for all parts of a situation, so nothing is missed or goes wrong.


πŸ“ Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:

To make sure there were no surprises during the presentation, he double-checked his notes to __________.

Answer

cover all his bases

2. Choose the correct meaning of β€œcovering all your bases”:

A) Focusing only on one thing
B) Getting ready for every possible problem
C) Ignoring minor details

Answer

B) Getting ready for every possible problem

3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:

β€œWe prepared extra supplies in case anything went wrong.” β†’ Change the sentence using: cover all our bases

Answer

We prepared extra supplies to cover all our bases.


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