save someone's bacon
verbEtymology
From an archaic sense of bacon, as a slang term referring to the human body.
Definitions
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.
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No curated loop yet for save someone's bacon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA