pick

face-saver

face-saver, face-saving

See: SAVE FACE.

No categories:

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

'face-saver' on video

Subscribe to: American Idioms

English Slang

✉

Get site updates @:

See as well

save face

[save face] {v. phr.} To save your good reputation, popularity, or dignity when something has happened or may happen to hurt you; hide something that may cause you shame. * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

face

[face] See: [BLUE IN THE FACE], [CUT OFF ONE'S NOSE TO SPITE ONE'S FACE], [FLY IN THE FACE OF], [HATCHET FACE], [HIDE ONE'S FACE], [IN ONE'S FACE], [IN THE FACE […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

face-to-face

[face-to-face] {adv. phr.} 1. With your face looking toward the face of another person; each facing the other. * /Turning a corner, he found himself face-to-face with a policeman./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

in one's face

[in one's face] {adv. phr.} 1. Against your face. * /The trick cigar blew up in the clown's face./ * /A cold wind was in our faces as we walked […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Recent updates:

cut down to size

[cut down to size] {v. phr.}, {informal} To prove that someone is not as good as he thinks. * /The big boy told John he […]

you said it

[you said it] or [you can say that again] {interj.}, {slang} - Used to show strong agreement with what another person has […]

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

penny-dreadful

[penny-dreadful] {n.} A cheap, sensationalist magazine.

Learning English at Maltalingua

The Experience of a Lifetime Some consider English as a difficult language to learn. No wonder so many opt to learn this […]

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy

(1839-1919), Irish scholar In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

Idioms to Learn Today

New Reading / Flip-Card (learning) set has been shared.Check yourself now! Run flip-cards by definitions or by descriptions.

giveaway

[giveaway] or [dead giveaway] {n.} (stress on "give") 1. An open secret. * /By mid-afternoon, it was a dead giveaway who […]