bacon saver

[karrotte]

What it a bacon saver and where did the saying originate from.

[Quizmonster]

'To save someone's bacon' means to get them out of trouble though they definitely seemed to be in deep difficulty. So, perhaps a 'bacon saver' is just someone who does that.
Alternatively, it might mean something along the same lines as a 'bean counter', who is usually an accountant who is very mean about the spending of any money.
A saviour or a tight-fisted administrator is my guess as to the meaning.

[Quizmonster]

I should perhaps have added above that the concept of 'saving someone's bacon' originated in the 1600s.

[stewey]

A bacon saver, as an object, is a plastic airtight container manufactured by Tupperware designed to keep bacon in. Whether they actually enable you to keep the bacon for a longer period of time I have no idea.