to save life

to save (one's) life

Regardless of one's effort, passion, or desire. Used after a negative verb construction to emphasize one's inability to do it. Ugh, this art assignment is so annoying—I can't draw an apple to save my life. Rachel is so selfish! It's like she couldn't consider another person's feelings to save her life.

to save (one's) life

No matter how hard one tries: He can't ski to save his life.

词组	to save life
释义	to save life to save (one's) life Regardless of one's effort, passion, or desire. Used after a negative verb construction to emphasize one's inability to do it. Ugh, this art assignment is so annoying—I can't draw an apple to save my life. Rachel is so selfish! It's like she couldn't consider another person's feelings to save her life. See also: life, save Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. to save (one's) life No matter how hard one tries: He can't ski to save his life. See also: life, save American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. See also: better (to be) safe than sorry better safe than sorry at (one's) doorstep at doorstep at expense at somebody's expense at someone's expense at (one's) expense be remembered as (something) be remembered as/for something References in periodicals archive My position is that we should not destroy life - even at the embryonic level - to save life, and should increase our efforts to find other ways to achieve the objective of saving life. From Preston Manning re embryonic stem cells. (Letters to the Editor) Killing in war is not a goal but a means to save life even if it may entail paying the enemy in kind. The Muslim World The guide also notes the "long tradition in Christian theology that allows for the removal of therapies that are useless or unduly burdensome, on the grounds that these therapies serve to prolong the process of dying rather than to save life." Opinions sought on euthanasia
随便看	not too bad not too hot not too shabby not to put too fine a point on it not to say not to speak of not to touch a drop not touch a drop not touch a hair on (one's) head not touch somebody/something with a bargepole not touch (someone or something) with a barge pole not touch (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole not touch with a ten-foot pole not to worry not trouble head about not trouble (one's) head about (someone or something) not trust (one) an inch not trust somebody an inch not trust someone as far as one can throw him/her not trust (someone) as far as (one) can throw (them) not trust someone as far as you can throw them not trust someone as far as you could throw them not trust (someone) farther than (one) can throw (them) not turn a hair not under any circumstance(s)