lose face

(idiom) to be extremely embarrassed

Example Sentences:

A: Happy Birthday!
B: My birthday was last month!
A: Oh. I really lost face, didn’t I?

The teacher lost face when she forgot to give the students their final exam marks.

The nervous businessman hated losing face, so he practiced his presentation many times.

From the Blogs:

How Not to Lose Face on Facebook

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Similar idioms:

1. have egg on one’s face
2. face the music
3. lose track of
4. lose it
5. save face
6. get out of one’s face
7. fly in the face of
8. about face
9. blue in the face
10. cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face
11. lose track of time
12. steal someone’s thunder