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save face

verb

Etymology

See lose face.

Definitions

  1. To take an action or make a gesture intended to preserve one's reputation or honour.

    • He tried to make reparations to those he had injured, partly to save face.

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No curated loop yet for save face. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA