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NL888 Posted 18 years ago
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to save his own hide = to save his own secret?
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0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 Context: 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 News: The controversial director of the OSC is launching the most high-profile (and politically fraught) investigation of his stormy, three-year tenure. Is it a courageous effort to expose White House malfeasance, or a last ditch attempt to save his own hide? 02 b 00 A more common from of this expression is 'To save his own skin'.
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 Context: 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 News: The controversial director of the OSC is launching the most high-profile (and politically fraught) investigation of his stormy, three-year tenure.
- Is it a courageous effort to expose White House malfeasance, or a last ditch attempt to save his own hide?
- 02 b 00 A more common from of this expression is 'To save his own skin'.
- It means 01 b 00 00 'to save himself' 02 b 00 .
- The idea is that by saving his own skin, he saves himself, since he "lives inside his own skin".
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