| 单词 | to save out of the fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto save out of the fire (b) to save out of the fire: to salvage or retain as a remnant from disaster or destruction. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > preserve from injury or destruction [verb (transitive)] > preserve as remnant from disaster to save out of the fire1700 1700 S. Johnson 2nd Pt. Confut. 63 It is well indeed for us that our Ancestors lived before us, and with the Expence of their Blood recovered the English Rights for us, and saved them out of the Fire. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt ii. 46 A fine fortune sav'd out of the fire. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xix. 309 To be sure Puddingdale is only four hundred, but that would be saving something out of the fire. 1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 749/2 I take leave to save out of the fire the following little batch of Æsopisms, taken down by me from memory as morsels of our friend's wise talk. 1934 T. Slesinger Unpossessed ii. iii. 129 The only thing you've saved out of the fire my dear is your nasty destructive beloved wit. < as lemmas |
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