Idiom
saved by the bell
Meaning
Rescued or favorably assisted by a timely interruption or by the sudden termination of difficult circumstances.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I did not know the answer, but the bell saved me.”
“I was struggling to answer the difficult question when the class ended, and I was saved by the bell.”
“Just as the argument reached a point of no return, the sudden arrival of the guests served as a distraction, leaving me saved by the bell.”
Examples
simple
“I did not know the answer, but the bell saved me.”
contextual
“I was struggling to answer the difficult question when the class ended, and I was saved by the bell.”
complex
“Just as the argument reached a point of no return, the sudden arrival of the guests served as a distraction, leaving me saved by the bell.”
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