save (one's) own bacon Идиома
bring home the bacon
bring home a paycheque, support a family Stan is disabled, so Louise brings home the bacon.
save your bacon
save you from failure or disaster, save your skin If the boat sinks, a life raft may save your bacon.
bacon
the police:"This donut shop smells like bacon" "Slow down, I smell bacon"
Save someone's bacon
If something saves your bacon, it saves your life or rescues you from a desperate situation. People can also save your bacon.
bring home the bacon|bacon|bring|home
v. phr.,
informal 1. To support your family; earn the family living.
He was a steady fellow, who always brought home the bacon. 2. To win a game or prize.
The football team brought home the bacon.
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.
save (one's) own bacon
To accomplishment or assure oneself from danger, trouble, or difficulty, usually after attention or affair for the abundance of others. In the face of the IRS audit, the CEO was added anxious with extenuative his own bacon than ensuring his employees' jobs remained secure. Just be abiding not to leave yourself apparent in this scandal—you can be abiding that the agent is attractive to save her own bacon, and you should be accomplishing the same.Learn more: bacon, own, save
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