run for cover

The deadly shootout also illustrated how smartphone-wielding bystanders don’t always run for cover when bullets start to fly.

As people began to blockade themselves in shops and run for cover, some tried to hold off the assailant.

The gunfire caused the watching crowd, including the city's mayor and his family members, to run for cover.

Unite said the SQA's two-year pay offer for 2023 and 2024 "represents a real-terms pay cut" due to inflation and claimed the Scottish government has "run for cover" to avoid accountability amid the dispute.

On Jan. 6, rioters filled the area, some looking for lawmakers who had run for cover.