life saver
Noun
Meaning
a candy shaped like a small lifesaver
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life-saver
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Examples
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
A woman from Oak Creek has received a Life Saver award for rescuing a man earlier this month.
Feels like a life-saver to sip it during the blazing hot afternoons.
Many readers are under the false impression that a Life Saver is a small, doughnut shaped candy, when in fact it is this handy dandy compilation slab.
Both copy the arrangement of Lonnie Johnson's "Life Saver Blues".