Come to the rescue

You 'come to the rescue' if you provide help when it's needed most

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When someone gives you the help you need, at exactly the moment you need it, that person comes to the rescue. In today’s lesson, you heard that the reduction in commuters put transit agencies in a hard position. They could no longer rely on money from collecting fares. However, many of their costs stayed the same. So they needed some kind of financial help.

The U.S. federal government came to the rescue by providing additional money to help transit agencies during the pandemic. The transit agencies needed help, and the U.S. federal government provided the help right when it was needed most.

Imagine you’re making dinner–it’s pasta night. But you ran out of olive oil and now you can’t make the marinara sauce. Your neighbor might come to the rescue by lending you some olive oil to make the sauce.

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