MOTS EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «SAVE SOMEONE'S BACON»
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10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «SAVE SOMEONE'S BACON»
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
1991 William Trevor Reading Turgenev People who lived in the town knew it
backwards. bacon save someone's bacon: see save someone's skin at SAVE.
bring home the bacon 0 supply material provision or support. 9 achieve success.
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
SAVE SOMEONE'S BACON v.). [SE save + BACON n.1 (1)] save one's groats v. [
late 18C-19C] to succeed, to do well. [university custom, those taking their finals
deposit 9 groats (= 32 old pennies) with an academic officer; if they pass with ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
save someone's bacon:seesave someone's skinatSAVE. bring home the bacon
supply material provision or support. achieve success. informal This phrase
probably derives from the much earlier save your bacon, recorded from the mid
17th ...
Popular Expressions: Get your back up; Go behind someone's back; Back
someone up Bacon Quick Interpretation: Success; being tempted; desire for
affluence Popular Expressions: Bring home the bacon; Save someone's bacon;
Pig ...
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Concise English Dictionary
to achieve an object, successfully accomplish a task: to provide material support:
save (someone's bacon (to enable someone) to come off scatheless with difficulty
. [O.Fr. bacon] Baconian ha-ko'ni-an, adj. pertaining lo Francis Bacon ( 1 56 1 ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
7 verb 1 bail out 1 the state will not bail out loss-making industries: rescue, save,
relieve, deliver, redeem; finance, help (out), assist, aid, come to the aid of, give/
lend a helping hand to; informal save someone's bacon, save someone's neck, ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1973 Book title: "Don't Bring Home the Bacon": How Sodium Nitrite Can Affect
Your Health Jacobson, Michael F. Washington, D. C.: Center for Science in the
Public Interest. To save someone's bacon (APP 14; ODEP 700: EAP 18; MP 26) ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
... back and sides of a pig, usually salted or smoked. • bring home the bacon
colloq 1 to provide material support; to earn the money. 2 to accomplish a task
successfully. • save someone's bacon colloq to rescue them from a difficult
situation.
... e.g. 'll, 've, 'd (as in I'll, we've, she's, they'd which are derived from will or shall,
have, is, had). The thing that all clitics have in common is some. a. save
someone's bacon 'save someone a lot of trouble' Thanks for talking to the police
officer.
3 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «SAVE SOMEONE'S BACON»
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There's some funny things lost in Rotherham
The lost property, which also includes 42 packets of bacon, a lawnmower, three boxes ... Director, Ben Gilligan, said: “It's nice to literally save someone's bacon. «Rotherham Advertiser, juil 15»
Baby, kittens and lawn mower left behind on South Yorkshire buses
First South Yorkshire's Managing Director, Ben Gilligan, said: “It's nice to literally save someone's bacon. The gentleman was very specific about how many ... «South Yorkshire Times, juil 15»
Fred Upton: No net neutrality deal this year
"Knowing we'll have a much stronger hand come January, there's no reason for us to compromise or save someone's bacon,” he said in an interview. «Politico, oct 10»
