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sauver la mise: to save the day
sauver les apparences: to keep up appearances
sauver les meubles: to salvage what can be salvaged, to save as much as possible, to do damage control, to cut one's losses, to minimize one's losses
sauver sa peau: to save one's skin, to save one's bacon
sauvetage: rescue (act of rescuing someone or something); saving (act of saving); save; salvage
sauveteur: rescuer; lifeguard
sauvette: only used in à la sauvette
sauveur: savior; knight in shining armor
sauvignon: sauvignon (grape variety and wine)
sauvé par la cloche: saved by the bell
sauvé par le gong: saved by the bell
savamment: wisely; with knowledge and experience; adroitly, skilfully
savane: savanna (tropical grassland with scattered trees)
savanne: pasture
savant: scholarly, scientific, learned; clever, shrewd, skilful; performing, trained
savant: scholar, scientist
savant fou: mad scientist
savarin: savarin
savate: savate; old slipper
savetier: cobbler (shoemaker)
saveur: taste, flavour
savoir: to know (something); to know how (to do something); to be able to, to be apt to (especially in the negative or interrogative conditional; used in the positive in Belgium); to find out
savoir: knowledge
savoir ce que parler veut dire: to get the hint; to pick up on the subtext
savoir gré: to be grateful
savoir y faire: to have a way with, to have a knack (for)
savoir à quoi s'en tenir: To be ready and waiting
savoir-faire: know-how, savoir-faire
savoir-vivre: politesse, courtesy
savoir-être: soft skills; life management skills
savoisien: Savoyard (of or from Savoy)
savon: soap
savon de Marseille: Marseille soap (a kind of hard soap, made from vegetable oils)
savon noir: soft soap (jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide)
savonner: to soap, wash with soap; to lather
savonnerie: soap factory
savonnette: bath soap
savonneux: soapy
savonnier: soapberry
savonnière: synonym of saponaire officinale
savonule: saponule
savourer: to savour, to savor; to taste
savoureusement: tastily
savoureux: tasty
savoyard: Savoyard (of, from or relating to Savoy, a cultural region, largely part of the modern administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
savoyard: Savoyard (dialect)
saxicole: saxicolous
saxicole: stonechat (Saxicola)
saxifrage: Saxifrage, a plant of the genus Saxifraga
saxo: clipping of saxophone
saxon: Saxon (of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany)
saxophone: saxophone
saxophoner: to play the saxophone
saxophoniste: saxophonist (person who plays the saxophone)
saynète: sketch, playlet
sayon: cassock, (coarse) jacket; sagum
saïga: saiga (antelope)
saïgonnais: Saigonese
sbire: an Italian police officer of the Middle Ages; henchman
scabieuse: scabious (plant of the genus Scabiosa)