Cover
Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Think up
Think up verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
Both terms in one sentence
- Presumably they'll think up a new cover story for Season 3.
Source: Reality Show Genre Blindness -
Collins that they beat up (long story) and try to think up a cover story to explain their teacher's Clothing Damage.
Source: Crazy Enough to Work
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