save someone's bacon

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of save someone's life (in all senses).

    My lawyer got my first DUI expunged and reversed the second one. As a result, when I got my third DUI, legally I was a first offender, and instead of jail I got probation. That lawyer really saved my bacon.

词源

From an archaic sense of bacon, as a slang term referring to the human body.

来源：wiktionary