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pull someone's bacon out of the fire
Verb
idiomatic
Japanese Meaning
ぎりぎりのところで誰かを救出すること / 危機的状況にある人物を助けること / 差し迫った危機から最後の瞬間に立ち直らせる行為
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(idiomatic) To rescue someone, especially at the last moment.
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pull someone's bacon out of the fire
When the system crashed at midnight, the on-call engineer had to pull someone's bacon out of the fire to keep the servers online.
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When the system crashed at midnight, the on-call engineer had to pull someone's bacon out of the fire to keep the servers online.
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