lost face
Example Sentences
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“I feel like we’ve lost face and public trust with them. We’ve got to gain that back.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2022
No. But Macy’s found out through an anonymous whistleblower; Gimbels lost face and went out of business in 1986.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2020
McMillan Cottom: I asked someone recently if I have resting lost face.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2018
“For the first time TV lost face as a news medium,” TV Guide, then the bible for television watchers, stated at the end of 1968.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2018
Of course the agitator lost face and that was the end of that.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
