save someone's skin (English, verb)
expansion: save someone's skin (third-person singular simple present saves someone's skin, present participle saving someone's skin, simple past and past participle saved someone's skin)
Senses:
glosses: To save someone's life.
tags: idiomatic
informal
glosses: To prevent an undesirable occurrence.
Forms:
form: saves someone's skin
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saving someone's skin
tags: participle
present
form: saved someone's skin
tags: participle
past
form: saved someone's skin
tags: past