"break cover" meaning in English

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      "form": "broke cover",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, cover."
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        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "word": "break character"
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        {
          "text": "Government MPs sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover.",
          "type": "example"
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      "glosses": [
        "To disclose one's real thoughts and intentions."
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        "(idiomatic, by extension) To disclose one's real thoughts and intentions."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "show one's true colors"
        },
        {
          "word": "show one's true stripes"
        }
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  "word": "break cover"
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      "form": "breaks cover",
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      "form": "breaking cover",
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    {
      "form": "broke cover",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, cover."
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          "cover",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Government MPs sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disclose one's real thoughts and intentions."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, by extension) To disclose one's real thoughts and intentions."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "show one's true colors"
        },
        {
          "word": "show one's true stripes"
        }
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