Meanings (ES + gloss)
salvado por la campana
Rescued or favorably assisted by a timely interruption or by the sudden termination of difficult circumstances.
So Asad's probing created a problem. . . . In a real sense Kissinger was saved by the bell: the American party had that afternoon to catch a plane to Israel.
The Montgomery bus boycott was "saved by the bell" of a federal Supreme Court decision that came just before the last minute.
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