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Avoid humiliation or embarrassment, preserve dignity, as in Rather than fire him outright, they let him save face by accepting his resignation . The phrase, which uses face in the sense of “outward appearances,†is modeled on the antonym lose face . [Late 1800s]Advertisement
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