Phrase info

to the rescue

Meaning

to the rescue

Used to express when someone or something has saved the day, or provided valuable help.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies. Adin Ballou

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue. Sam Neill

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. Bianca Jagger

America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud. Michel Chossudovsky

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go. Benjamin N. Cardozo

If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment. Eric Maskin

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