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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
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- cake crumbs
- dead as a doorknob
- deafening silence
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- grain of salt
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