save your own skin/hide
informalDefinition
› to protect yourself from danger or difficulty, without trying to help other peoplePreserving and savingDefending and protecting
(Definition of save your own skin/hide from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a knight in shining armour idiom
- conserve verb
- deliver verb (SAVE)
- guardian angel noun
- keep sth up phrasal verb
- life-saver noun (WATER)
- life-saving noun
- lifeguard noun
- maintain verb (KEEP IN GOOD CONDITION)
- pluck verb (REMOVE)
- reclaim verb
- recycled adjective
- reprocess verb
- salvage verb
- salvation noun
- save sb's bacon/neck idiom
- save verb (MAKE SAFE)
- saved by the bell idiom
- spare verb (AVOID)
- sustain verb (CONTINUE)
Topic:
Preserving and saving
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