Usually means: Suffer loss of social standing.
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  1. lose face: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lose face: Merriam-Webster
  3. lose face: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lose face: Wiktionary
  5. lose face: Dictionary.com
  6. Lose face: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. lose face: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lose face: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lose face)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To lose the respect of others; to be humiliated or experience public disgrace.

Similar:
downface, disgrace, humiliate, fall flat on one's face, forget oneself, give a bad name, spit in someone's face, fall on one's face, unface, fall, more...

Opposite:
save face, maintain dignity, preserve honor

Types:
be embarrassed, be humiliated, be mortified, be chagrined, be discomfited, be disconcerted, be discom, more...

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Similar:
downface, disgrace, humiliate, fall flat on one's face, forget oneself, give a bad name, spit in someone's face, fall on one's face, unface, fall, more...

Opposite:
save face, maintain dignity, preserve honor

Types:
be embarrassed, be humiliated, be mortified, be chagrined, be discomfited, be disconcerted, be discom, more...



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