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to save one's life
to save one's life
Even if one's life depended on it, as in I couldn't eat another bite to save my life, or Betty wouldn't climb a mountain to save her life. This hyperbolic expression nearly always follows a negative statement that one wouldn't or couldn't do something. Anthony Trollope used a slightly different wording in The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848): "I shan't remain long, if it was to save my life and theirs; I can't get up small talk for the rector and his curate."
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Branislava | | - | Serbian, Slovak, Czech, Slovene |
Mayson | | MAY-sən | English (Rare) |
Sabina | | [sə'bainə] | |
Anastazy | | ah-nah-STAH-zi | Polish |
Lassiter | | ['læsitə] | |
Antonina | | ahn-taw-NEE-nah (Polish), ahn-tah-NEE-nah (Russian) | Italian, Polish, Russian, Ancient Roman |