"to save one's life" meaning in English

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          "text": "I can't dance to save my life.",
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          "text": "After she began to have a Governoress for Stuyvesant Jimpson and an Imported Nurse for the little Evelyn Jimpson her memory began to blur in spots and she couldn’t have done up the Dishes to save her life.",
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          "word": "for the life of one"
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          "word": "even if one's life depended on it"
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