A fork of Rural Dictionary
cya is just short for, "see you"
often used on the internet when saying goodbye
joe: Hey, i got to go eat dinner, bye.
jack: ok, cya.
Cover your ass - a way of saying "I'm going to do just enough CYA so that when something goes wrong I can blame someone else down the line" Another example of society going into a slow death spiral.
Boss: Why didn't you put the fire out before it burned down the building!
Jones: I didn't know the room I was in was on fire because I was doing something important on the internet, Johnson didn't check the smoke detector batteries.
Boss: Way to CYA Jones!
"arse" sounds like a down east Canadian expression
In Ontario, it's "cover your ass"
Here in Ottawa, in the public service, one must make sure to CYA in everything you do, and covering your boss's ass isnt a bad thing either.