saving someone's life

Verb

save someone's life (third-person singular simple present saves someone's life, present participle saving someone's life, simple past and past participle saved someone's life)

1. To prevent someone from dying.
   • The lifeguard saved the kid's life by doing CPR.

   Synonyms:

   save someone's skin, save someone's ass, save someone's bacon, pull someone's bacon out of the fire

2. (idiomatic) To prevent someone from getting into trouble, or to rescue them from it.
   • My buddy saved my life by lending me a thousand bucks when I was dead broke.

   Synonyms:

   save someone's skin, save someone's ass, save someone's bacon, pull someone's bacon out of the fire, throw someone a rope