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. steal someone’s thunder
4. fall on hard times
5. hard times
6. lose track of
7. lose it
8. save face
9. fly in the face of
10. about face
11. cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face
12. get out of one’s face
13. hot under the collar
14. blue in the face
15. fall on hard times