save your skin

Meaning

1. save your (own) skin / hide / neck

   to try to avoid death, punishment, etc., especially by leaving others in an extremely difficult situation

   To save his own skin, he lied and blamed the accident on his friend.

In the movies · 6

• Why should I save his hide? Why should I right this wrong?Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• You see that girl? She saved my neck.The Mummy1999
• But I'm trying to save your skin, kid!Wreck-It Ralph2012
• All you wanted to do was save your own skin.Horns2013
• As an honorary member of the gang That no one alive ever leaves - You gotta snatch and sneak - Or else your future's bleak We got a lifetime contract that you're bound to keep You wanna save your skin You'd better fit right in Well, well, welcome to the-- Well, well, welcome to the-- Forty ThievesAladdin and the King of Thieves1996

Learn it in full scenes

• Wreck-It Ralph2012
  • Ralph's Opening Monologue
  • Ralph Shows Up to Bad-Anon
  • Ralph Crashes the Anniversary Party

From the same entry

• not be able to do to save your life
• save bacon
• save the day
• save face
• save your breath