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save the day
Idioms and Phrases
Prevent a misfortune, as in They had forgotten the knife to cut the wedding cake, but Elizabeth arrived with one and saved the day .Example Sentences
He denies the actual start of the war in Ukraine because he loves pretending that he’s coming to save the day.
With that said, given all of poor Gaitok’s bad luck and this added detail about the gun, I thought maybe the dead body could be Mook in one of his blundered attempts to save the day.
The record-setting running back with the Mighty Mouse tattoo won’t be asked to save the day again as a police officer in California.
Throughout the Trumpocene, these “reasonable” and “mainstream” voices were confident that “the walls were closing in” and heroes would rise, like in an old Hollywood movie, to vanquish the bad guy and save the day.
There are clashes and there is closure, but mostly there’s just Vera, bustling around in that ratty coat and beat-up car, to solve the case, save the day and aid the afflicted.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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