pull someone's bacon out of the fire (English, verb)
expansion: pull someone's bacon out of the fire (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's bacon out of the fire, present participle pulling someone's bacon out of the fire, simple past and past participle pulled someone's bacon out of the fire)
Senses:
glosses: To rescue someone, especially at the last moment.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: pulls someone's bacon out of the fire
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulling someone's bacon out of the fire
tags: participle
present
form: pulled someone's bacon out of the fire
tags: participle
past
form: pulled someone's bacon out of the fire
tags: past
form: pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
tags: alternative
form: pull someone's fat out of the fire
tags: alternative