to save sb's bacon

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• save someone's bacon — save (some)one s bacon, save one s face, save one s neck, save one s skin, save the mark see under ↑bacon, ↑face, ↑neck, ↑skin and ↑mark1 • • • Main Entry: ↑save * * * …   Useful english dictionary

• save someone's bacon — If something saves your bacon, it saves your life or rescues you from a desperate situation. People can also save your bacon …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• save someone's bacon/hide/neck/skin — informal : to save someone : to help someone get out of a dangerous or difficult situation You really saved my bacon by helping out yesterday. He doesn t care what happens to us. All he s worried about is saving his own skin/neck. [=saving… …   Useful english dictionary

• save someone's bacon — save (someone s) bacon mainly British, informal to save someone from failure or difficulties. You saved my bacon there. I d probably have lost my job if you hadn t been ready with an explanation …   New idioms dictionary

• save somebody's bacon — save sb s ˈbacon/ˈneck idiom (informal) to rescue sb from a very difficult situation Main entry: ↑saveidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• save one's bacon — phrasal : to preserve or rescue something of vital importance (as one s life, livelihood, or reputation) from loss or harm the pilots of my section saved my bacon many times when I have been attacked from behind Keith Ayling is forced to… …   Useful english dictionary

• To save one's bacon — Bacon Ba con, n. [OF. bacon, fr. OHG. bacho, bahho, flitch of bacon, ham; akin to E. back. Cf. Back the back side.] The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. [1913 Webster] {Bacon beetle} (Zo[… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• save someone's bacon — ► save someone s skin (or neck or bacon) rescue someone from difficulty. Main Entry: ↑save …   English terms dictionary

• Save one's bacon — save (someone) from a dangerous or awkward situation …   Dictionary of Australian slang

• save one's bacon — save oneself, rescue oneself from a bad situation …   English contemporary dictionary

• save someone's bacon — verb a) To save someones life. ...an anxious eye had been kept on the pinnace and the vessel she was chasing. Shes up to her, cried Desmond, who was looking through his glass; she struck without a blow, and there go our fellows tumbling on board …   Wiktionary