| 释义 | saved by the bellidiom
 something that you say when a difficult situation ends suddenly before you have to do or say something that you do not want to: 救命钟(某种困难局面突然结束时所说的措辞,否则你就得做或说你不想做或说的事)
 Luckily my bus arrived before I had time to reply. Saved by the bell.正当我要回答时,我等的公交车就到了,真是万幸。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Preserving and saving
 aspic
 co-processing
 conserve
 deliverer
 documentalist
 documentarily
 lifeguard
 reclaim
 recycled
 reprieve
 rescue
 rescuer
 reusable
 rewild
 sustain
 sustainedly
 unadopted
 unappropriated
 unassigned
 undesignated
 
 
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