Definition
To rescue or favorably assist (someone) by means of a timely interruption or the sudden termination of difficult circumstances.
In Context
- "The waitress brought the coffee about this time, saving me by the bell, as it were."
- "Fortunately the appearance of the rash marks the beginning of a sudden end to the disease, establishes a diagnosis, saves you by the bell, satisfies the child's parents, and baby has had just one more kind of measles."
- "Remember that God gives the strength to go on when you would rather collapse. He can save you by the bell!"
- "She felt as though his departure for Europe was saving her by the bell."
- "Today's entry got to me just in the nick of time. Saving me by the bell is Reilly Campbell."
- "[W]hen the Lord delivers me, He saves me, rescues me, comes to my rescue, throws me a life-line; snatches me from the jaws of death, saves me at the last second or minute, rescues me at the eleventh hour, saves me by the bell."