"save trouble" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the sense of avoiding or preventing trouble. For example, "We decided to take the long route to save trouble."
The New Yorker, December 19 , 1925P. 1 There are all kinds of ways whereby one can save trouble.
Since rising powers like Brazil will one day run the world, argues Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães Neto, the minister for strategic affairs, they can save trouble later by reducing poverty in developing countries now.Moreover, aid makes commercial sense.
This will save trouble in the long term.
This basically exempted broadband companies, which the FCC had itself opted not to consider telecoms in order to save trouble, from their oversight altogether!
Two of the native trees, redwood and ebony, were good for tanning, and, to save trouble, the bark was wastefully stripped from the trunks only, the remainder being left to rot; while in 1709 a large quantity of the rapidly disappearing ebony was used to burn lime for building fortifications!
Pack now, and save trouble in the morning.
They need to save troubled governments in order to prevent contagion.
This goes nicely with recent policy proposals to save troubled public services by encouraging healthier lifestyles.
SUBPRIME MORTGAGE REFORM President Bush on Friday announced reforms of the Federal Housing Administration intended to save troubled subprime borrowers from foreclosure.
In the foreclosure crisis, lenders and borrowers both say the other has missed opportunities to save troubled loans.
Elsewhere, the vampire Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is giving the undead a good name in his own eponymously-titled WB series, helping to save troubled souls.
