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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
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- fall behind
- fire up
- go out the window
- look up
- mess up
- pick up
- run on
- take off
- tear away
- tie up
- arse about face
- blessing in disguise
- by and large
- by hook or by crook
- curveball
- cut it out
- daily grind
- dead duck
- diamond in the rough
- dry run
- early bath
- every man jack
- fair and square
- fat chance
- flea in one's ear
- flutter in the dovecote
- fresh start
- go up in smoke
- gold mine
- ground rules
- hack it
- hand in hand
- hat in hand
- home stretch
- hot potato
- in detail
- in evidence
- in the works
- keep an eye on
- light a fire under
- lion
- nervous as a cat
- no biggie
- off the bat
- on the nose
- out of house and home
- out of order
- out of the blue
- pound the pavement
- pull one's head in
- quick-and-dirty
- rain cheque
- second banana
- see eye to eye
- see someone through
- shut down
- slip through the cracks
- so much as
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- stand a chance
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