save someone's bacon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

En-au-save someone's bacon.ogg

save someone's bacon saves someone's bacon saving someone's bacon saved someone's bacon

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

save someone's life

pull someone's bacon out of the fire

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