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save your/someone's skin/hide
idiom informal
to protect yourself or someone else from danger or difficulty:
He has saved my skin more than once.
There is no justification for killing another human to save your own skin.
You lied to me to save your hide.
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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