save face

save face

• 保持尊严，顾全面子；挽回面子

• puerileness
• sleepless
• second lieutenants
• leading tones
• coinage bronze
• economic animal
• keep from
• inarching
• Cairene
• mousse
• sideways-looking
• Mcleod gage
• balanced budget multiplier
• infinitize
• western meadowlarks
• interclass
• Milicent
• celiac syndrome
• zero error
• take fright at something
• as swift as an arrow
• Mainz
• inertia governor
• focus groups
• take (to) the floor
• Fabian soldiers
• liqueur chocolate
• distribution-free methods
• Yucatán Channel
• average up
• lick someone/thing into shape
• tetter
• green-blind
• autoregulative
• malangas
• allochrous
• waveless
• ablactation
• Mott Street
• Cypriot
• knock sb out
• give sb (fresh) heart
• f.i.t.
• mare's nest
• err on the side of
• carry something through
• less is more
• LCP
• gear down
• argue with sb over/about
• fowling piece
• campcraft
• swingingness
• electrophoretic effect
• umbrellaless
• in the bud
• fluvioatic
• bikini cut
• lightning chess
• medullary
• helotisms
• gayety
• decolourizing
• hemopathy
• khurtas
• chillingly
• false positive
• immovablenesses
• lasing
• take out after
• subnormalities
• remain
• radioluminescent
• phase sth ↔ in
• extempore
• cobalt rich manganese crust
• ancress
• champertor
• blind as a mole
• spinebash
• Computer-Aided Designs
• rubber bridge
• acari-
• added value
• bongoists
• apostolicity
• tarsal glands
• the run of
• zone-position indicator
• nondegenerated
• time signature
• gambrel
• Richardson plot
• a snowball's chance （in hell）
• slog
• intitules
• step in
• adherent to
• chondrify
• patella