pull (someone's) bacon out of the fire

pull (someone's) bacon out of the fire

To save someone from imminent or impending trouble, difficulty, or danger. My brother is the best lawyer in town, and he's pulled my bacon out of the fire on more than one occasion! The president gets all the credit for the economic recovery, but it was really a team of international financial strategists that pulled our bacon out of the fire.See also: bacon, fire, of, out, pull