Phrase guide
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verb
To prevent someone from dying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: save someone's skin, save someone's ass, save someone's bacon, pull someone's bacon out of the fire
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To prevent someone from getting into trouble, or to rescue them from it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Synonyms: save someone's skin, save someone's ass, save someone's bacon, pull someone's bacon out of the fire, throw someone a rope
Antonyms: none provided
History
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