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save face

verb as in preserve one's dignity

Weak match

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The details were a little complicated, perhaps by design to enable both sides to save face.

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This final is a chance to save face, to gain some kind of redemption.

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He complained the Army "spit me out," though he tries to save face by claiming "the feeling was mutual."

Better to demonstrate prudence, he reasoned, than to rashly reverse a well-considered decision in hope of temporarily saving face.

Years later she would admit she was trying to save face, telling Australian media she was actually dropped from the team.

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