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:
- have egg on one’s face
- steal someone’s thunder
- face the music
- lose track of
- lose it
- hot under the collar
