save one's face

The important thing now was to let him save face.

And we'll figure out a way for you to save face in front of your men.

It was the only way her government could save face.

I saw that she wanted to save face, before me.

"So what we have to do is find a way to bring down the wall and save face at the same time."

That way, everyone could save face and begin to clear away the dead.

There's got to be at least one more try, if for nothing else than to save face.

It says the union is just trying to save face.

That gave him a chance to save face and buy time.

They had to agree to something, if only to save face.

It might be better for such a man to risk death in order to save face.

And that is not me trying to save face, Professor.

Or you can find some way to save face on both sides.

And he had to do so in a way that made the point clearly, but which left them able to save face.

They had known he must make some statement to save face.

For others, the bottom line will come down to saving face.

Elected office should not be a reason to let someone save face.

That was the small lie they were using to save face.

"We've got all those people of there already, and it's like we'll have to do something now to save face."

He gave an excuse that let the man save face.

The story of the miracle was a way to save face.

That gave the local pause, but he had to save face.

If that means letting him save face, so be it.

The only way to save face was to tease him.

It does not have to be called I-95, if that helps to save face.