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saved by the bell
idiom
something that you say when a difficult situation ends suddenly before you have to do or say something that you do not want to: 救命钟（某种困难局面突然结束时所说的措辞，否则你就得做或说你不想做或说的事）
Luckily my bus arrived before I had time to reply. Saved by the bell.正当我要回答时，我等的公交车就到了，真是万幸。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Preserving and saving
aspic
co-processing
conserve
deliverer
documentalist
documentarily
lifeguard
reclaim
recycled
reprieve
rescue
rescuer
reusable
rewild
sustain
sustainedly
unadopted
unappropriated
unassigned
undesignated
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