Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “save someone’s skin” and its meaning is “rescue someone from failure/danger; come to someone’s rescue, save someone’s life, come to someone’s aid”.
Example Sentence: Nothing in politics is as dangerous as a populist (a politician who tries to appeal to ordinary people) in trouble – unless it is two populists in trouble. Today we have Britain’s Boris Johnson and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, both with plunging (decreasing rapidly) popularity ratings and both desperately in need of a distraction. There is no distraction as enticing as war… Russia’s border disputes with its neighbours have nothing whatsoever to do with Britain. And they certainly have nothing to do with saving Boris Johnson’s skin.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Britain should stay well out of Russia’s border dispute with Ukraine and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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