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