save someone's bacon

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Definition of save someone's bacon in English Turkish dictionary

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save bacon

(deyim) save one's/aomeone's bacon [kd] yakayi kurtarmak,pacayi kurtarmak

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Definition of save someone's bacon in English English dictionary

To save someone's life

the tide being fortunately in our favour, we reached the Saint Vincent in good time, going up the accommodation ladder on the port side, which, as you know, is devoted to the use of the lower deck portion of the crew, just as Eight Bells struck. Ha, my lads, cried the Jaunty, who stood by the entry-port, you've just saved your bacon!.

to prevent an undesirable occurrence

Hyphenation

save someone's Ba·con

Turkish pronunciation

seyv sʌmwʌnz beykın

Synonyms

save someone's skin

Pronunciation

/ˈsāv ˈsəmˌwənz ˈbākən/ /ˈseɪv ˈsʌmˌwʌnz ˈbeɪkən/