life preserver

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A buoyant ring or vest intended to keep a person afloat.
2. isim A short club with a weighted end.

   “Here's your crowbar / And your centre-bit; / Your life-preserver— / You may want to hit!”

3. isim Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see life, preserver.

   “In such cases, the story is told to illustrate some main truth, which, in this case, is the beer-drinking habit of the people. By this faith, that beer is a life preserver, the English live, and by this they die.”