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Salvation with banjos, proving nature is scarier than any city alley.
means The act of being set free or rescued from danger, hardship, or captivity.
from From Old French delivrance, built on delivrer ('to set free'), which traces back to Latin liberare, 'to free' — the same root that gives us 'liberty' and 'liberate.' The de- prefix adds force, intensifying the sense of release. Long before it meant a canoe trip gone wrong, deliverance meant rescue in the biblical sense — being led out of bondage, plague, or peril, often by a higher hand.
- based on
- James Dickey's 1970 novel of the same name
- dueling banjos
- became an unlikely top 10 hit single
- casting note
- Burt Reynolds did his own canoe stunts
- legacy phrase
- squeal like a pig entered pop culture permanently