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The scandal was survivable; the lying about it rarely is.
means A deliberate effort to hide wrongdoing or embarrassing facts, usually by lying, destroying evidence, or silencing witnesses.
from Straightforward English compound — 'cover' (from Old French 'covrir,' to hide or shield) plus 'up,' the intensifying particle that means 'completely' or 'thoroughly,' as in 'button up' or 'close up.' The verb phrase 'cover up' existed for literal concealment long before it hardened into the noun 'coverup' in the 20th century, when it came to mean specifically the organized suppression of a scandal — a sense cemented in the public imagination by political scandals where investigators discovered that the original offense mattered less than the elaborate machinery built to bury it.
- nixon rule
- it's never the crime, it's the tape
- math problem
- every person you tell doubles the risk
- irony
- designed to end careers, usually the one hiding