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From: The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
Date: 20040101
Author:JUDITH SIEFRING
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be unable to do something to save your life used to indicate that the person in question is very incompetent at doing something.•The earliest recorded use of this expression is by Anthony Trollope in The Kellys and O'Kellys (1848): ‘If it was to save my life and theirs, I can't get up small talk for the rector and his curate’.
save your breath : see breath .
save the day ( or situation) find or provide a solution to a difficulty or disaster.
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Richard Critchfield
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