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Also, save one's neck or skin. Rescue one from a difficult situation or harm, as in I was having a hard time changing the flat tire but along came Bud, who saved my bacon, or The boat capsized in icy waters, but the life preservers saved our skins.
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Use save one bacon in a Sentence ... See web results for save one bacon ... save one's skin...
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Save one's bacon ... Because he's a snake, Simon can afford to lose his skin once a year. We can't, though, for "skin" is a colloquialism for one's life. Therefore, to save one's skin means to escape danger or save one's life. "When his boat sank, Tom saved his skin by clinging to a life preserver until a passing ship...
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Interestingly, this seems to be one of the most disputed phrase origins. ... Abandon someone; sacrifice someone to save yourself. ... The first goes back several hundred years to the village of Dunmow in Essex where, it is said, in AD 1111 a noble woman offered a prize of a side of bacon, known locally as a flitch, to any man...
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save someone's skin and save someone's neck; save one's bacon ... See also: save, skin ... save somebody's skin...
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to prevent something very bad from happening to you It's a short book but it could save your bacon when you're traveling overseas ... save someone's skin and save someone's neck; save one's bacon ... See also: save, skin...
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First that George thought that a braised bacon skin would be niced crumbed and deep fried. To me that was the culinary equivalent of the deep fried Mars Bar. ... the other thing is the classes often make reference to one of the contestants screwing up a sauce, etc. and they are called on to help with the dish or taste the...
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Verb: escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm; (safe);
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early days - too soon to know early doors - a colloquial term for "early"-From the ancient licensing laws governing pub opening hours (now largely abolished), at one time, pubs on the south side of Oxford street could open at 5pm, while those on the North side had to wait until 5.30pm due to different zoning laws.
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save us! ak Dievs! to keep a whole skin, to save one's skin ... to save one's bacon. glābt savu ādu; panākt savu; tikt cauri ar veselu ādu ...
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