Ian Blair could not have rescued himself from the press by buying us drinks and being friendly.
He was officially again a genius who had rescued himself from his last bout of genius.
With a nice touch in self-deprecation, he could rescue himself from a joke that had bombed.
The unexpected impromptus with which he rescues himself from gags that bomb, thereby plucking triumph from disaster, are also part of the expected pleasure.
Then he rescues himself from despair by reminding himself that public language has come back to life before, even as the last rites were being read over it.
In exchange, Mr. Cantine got rescued himself — from living at home in nearby Montclair, N.J., with his parents and four younger siblings.
Kidd is the restless, ambitious manager with a collapsing marriage, who is prepared to cut any deal to rescue himself from debt.
Baron Münchhausen, the legendary German braggard, once boasted that he rescued himself from a swamp by grabbing his own forelock and pulling himself out, followed by the horse he was sitting on.
He must have been tempted to rescue himself from the slavery of a small business and join a publication where the pay was never late, where there were holidays and secretaries did the office chores.Some innovative magazines started in a modest way have done well commercially, among them Time (started in 1923) and the New Yorker (1925).
Sylvester Stallone has to operate on himself in Rambo First Blood, but he rescues himself from slob status in the first Rocky movie just by running around Philadelphia every day, until finally he is ready to defeat the unwisely confident world heavyweight champion.
Prime Minister Erdogan himself is sinking while trying to protect his circle... Unless he rescues himself from the [corruption] claims before the judiciary, the blemish will continue and grow; the country will become totally unmanageable!" - Rahmi Turan in Turkey's Sozcu.
