throw someone a rope

Definitions

1. 1

   To rescue someone by providing them with help, such as material aid, financial aid, a…

   To rescue someone by providing them with help, such as material aid, financial aid, a face-saving excuse, or a clue.

   • Near-synonyms: save someone's life, save someone's skin, save someone's bacon, pull someone's bacon out of the fire, give someone a hand, lend a hand, bail someone out
   • He's out there making a fool of himself. Someone should throw him a rope.
   • Throw me a rope On the rolling tide What did you want it to be? You said it's him or me The way you made it That's the way it will be
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to rescue someone from drowning by tossing a rope for them to grab onto and be dragged to safety.

   • He's out there fighting the riptide. We need to throw him a rope.

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