Save Face 1100 Words You Need Week 12 Day 3

Save Face 1100 Words

Save Face 1100 Words

avoid humiliation or disgrace, to try to protect one’s reputation in the face of problems, avoid embarrassment:

“Never take a person’s dignity: It’s worth everything to them, and nothing to you,” states Frank Barron, professor of psychology. Preserving one’s dignity is the implied meaning in the expression, “to save face.”

Instead of firing the corrupt executive, they allowed him to retire in order that he might save face.

Antonym: slander, libel, defame, disparage, deprecate, offend, insult, vilify

French: protéger la réputation

Farsi: حفظ آبرو کردن