• save by the bell

save by the bell (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (lb, en, transitive, boxing, wrestling) In a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, to ring the bell which concludes the round and thereby to prevent a competitor who has been knocked down from being count out, counted out by the referee.
• (lb, en, transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To rescue or favorably assist (someone) by means of a timely interruption or the sudden termination of difficult circumstances.