save your skin

释义

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

   （尤指不惜置他人于困境而）保全自己的性命，使自己免受惩罚

   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.为了自保，他竟然说谎，把事故的责任推到朋友身上。

电影里这样说 · 6 部

• 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

在完整场景里学

• 无敌破坏王2012
  • 坏蛋自白这份工作：name of the game（关键所在）
  • 坏人互助会第一次到场：come to terms with（接受并释怀）
  • 求分一块蛋糕被拒：the end of the world（天塌下来）

同一词条的短语

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