命いのちを取とり留とめる

expression, ichidan verb

escape death; be saved from death

Used when someone survives a life-threatening situation, such as a serious illness, accident, or injury. Often implies a narrow escape.

See also: 一命を取り留める (いちめいをとりとめる)

• 彼かれは交こう通つう事じ故こで重じゅう傷しょうを負おったが、命いのちを取とり留とめた。

  He was seriously injured in a traffic accident, but he escaped death.

• 医い者しゃの懸けん命めいな治ち療りょうのおかげで、患かん者じゃは命いのちを取とり留とめた。

  Thanks to the doctor's desperate treatment, the patient was saved from death.