1 intended to prevent someone from feeling embarrassed or having to admit that they are wrong:
a face-saving compromise/exercise/deal The European Commission agreed a face-saving compromise to defuse a bitter dispute with Germany over subsidies.
The point and click magic of correcting sentences on the fly is both fun and face-saving.
This practice by speakers may be thought of as a kind of face-saving strategy, by means of which the delivery of face-threatening acts is delayed within the turn.
Does not the result appear to be a combination of a witch hunt and a face-saving exercise?
The self-styled lock-out committee are endeavouring to find a face-saving formula.
That seems to me to be merely a time-saving and a face-saving device to avoid the issue.
He refers to a face-saving formula, and if a formula is in fact to save faces it is probably not best described in that manner.
He said that it was a face-saving inquiry.
I suspect that much face-saving is involved in this issue.
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