save someone's bacon

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Synonym of save someone's life (in all senses).
    — [A]n anxious eye had been kept on the pinnace and the vessel she was chasing. "She's up to her," cried Desmond, who was looking through his glass; "she struck without a blow, and there go our fellows tumbling on board. Little doubt, however, about her being a slaver, though, as they must have seen the way in which we got hold of this craft, they thought it as well to save their bacon, and make the best of a bad job."

词形变化

saves someone's bacon present,singular,third-person saving someone's bacon participle,present saved someone's bacon participle,past saved someone's bacon past

词源

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