sauver sa peau

save on Idiome

save one

remain silent because talking will do no good You may as well save your breath and not talk to her as she never believes you anyway.save from danger or trouble The worker tried to save his own neck without thinking of any of the other people.save oneself from danger or trouble He left the scene of the fire as soon as possible in order to save his own neck.

save one's breath

keep silent because talking will not help 省点力气别开口；免开口
What you are saying will not make any difference to me，so you may as well keep your breath．你所说的对我不会产生任何作用，所以你最好是免开尊口。
Save your breath．There is no chance that he will agree．省点力气吧，他是决不可能同意的。

save one's neck

save from danger or trouble 免于遭殃；使摆脱困境
He's saved his neck，thanks to his counsel，but people will always suspect him．多亏他的辩护律师才使他免受绞刑，但人们将永远以怀疑的眼光来看他。
You really saved my neck by help ing me check up on many details in my paper；otherwise I couldn't have got the work done in time．你替我核对了这篇论文中的许多具体细节，真是帮了个大忙，否则我根本不可能及时完成这篇论文。

save one's neck/skin

save one's skin

save one's face

Idiom(s): save (one's) face

Theme: SURVIVAL

to preserve one's good standing or high position (after a failure).
• The ambassador was more interested in saving his face than winning the argument.
• Most diplomats are concerned with saving face.

save one's breath|breath|save

v. phr., informal To keep silent because talking will not help; not talk because it will do no good. Save your breath; the boss will never give you the day off.

save one's neck|neck|save|save one's skin|skin

v. phr., slang To save from danger or trouble. The fighter planes saved our skins while the army was landing from the ships. Betty saved Tim's neck by typing his report for him; without her help he could not have finished on time.

save one's bacon

save one's bacon
Also, save one's neck or skin. Rescue one from a difficult situation or harm, as in I was having a hard time changing the flat tire but along came Bud, who saved my bacon, or The boat capsized in icy waters, but the life preservers saved our skins. The allusion in the first term is no longer clear. It may simply be a comical way of referring to one's body or one's life. At the time it was first recorded, in 1654, bacon was a prized commodity, so perhaps saving one's bacon was tantamount to keeping something precious. Both variants allude to saving one's life, the one with skin dating from the early 1500s, and with neck, alluding to beheading, from the late 1600s.

to save one's life

to save one's life
Even if one's life depended on it, as in I couldn't eat another bite to save my life, or Betty wouldn't climb a mountain to save her life. This hyperbolic expression nearly always follows a negative statement that one wouldn't or couldn't do something. Anthony Trollope used a slightly different wording in The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848): “I shan't remain long, if it was to save my life and theirs; I can't get up small talk for the rector and his curate.”

save (an bulk of) (money) on (something)

To conserve or abstain spending (an bulk of) money on something. You could save on your electricity bills if you chock-full active the air conditioning so often. I adored over $200 on my flights by application this abatement service. I'm acquisitive to save some money on a new computer during the Black Friday sales.Learn more: amount, on, save

save (money) on something

to save money or some bulk of money on the acquirement of something. I can save a lot of money on this acquirement by affairs it about else. I am abiding you can save on a new car if you boutique wisely.Learn more: on, save

save on

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1. To conserve money by purchasing article at a discount: Save on all kitchen accessories during our appropriate approval sale!
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