What does "save someone from under the rock" mean?
Is it an idiom?
Example:
It was this day, three weeks ago, that you saved me from under the rock. Let me pay for the dinner.
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It's easy enough to guess. But really, could be intended to mean a number of slightly different things.
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Ok, "you" save hime/her - obvious.
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"under a rock" can mean obscurity,
could mean "in a bad place",
can be used to mean "in hidding, hidden"
Can mean a general insult, What rock did you crawl out from under? - suggests low-life, undesirable.
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So, blind? Likely means "you" saved them from being in a bad place, figuratively.
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So for your saying, in your context, give us the context?
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I've never heard of that expression either. We do have a phrase 'you saved my skin' , which means someone has helped you out of a tough situation. Hope that helps
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I have literally never heard of this expression before
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Some people use the expression "living under a rock" for a person that is not aware of current news and events in the world.
If you saved them from "living under a rock", you would tell them what is going on in the world.
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For me the term "under a rock" usually is used for two reasons.
1. That a person was in hiding. Like the term "you can't hide under a rock forever" the person was choosing to hide likely due to emotional distress. 2. A person is lacking knowledge or is blind to a situation. Like the saying "have you been living under a rock?" they are surprised the other person had no knowledge about something in particular.
Saying that someone saved them from under a rock makes me think this person saved them by taking the time to give them information that ended up being crutial to them.
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