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Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom: To save one's skin
- A. To protect a wound
- B. To grow older
- C. To change one's habits
- D. To escape harm or punishment
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Answer: (D) To escape harm or punishment
The idiom means to avoid injury, loss or blame, often by selfish action, as in a person who lies to save his skin. The other options misread 'skin' literally as a wound or ageing, and none describes escape from trouble.
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