to save, rescue; to protect / to save / to escape, run away / to save (conserve, prevent the wasting of)

(figuratively) to save face

(figuratively) to save one's skin, to save one's bacon

(intransitive) to save one's own skin / (transitive with à) to save someone's bacon, to pull someone's bacon out of the fire

(figuratively, informal) to salvage what can be salvaged, to save as much as possible, to do damage control, to cut one's losses, to minimize one's losses

(figuratively) to save face

(figuratively) to keep up appearances

first/second-person singular conditional of sauver

first-person singular future of sauver

first-person plural conditional of sauver