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face-saving save face - to do something so that people will continue to respect you. They denied that the decision to sack the director was simply a face-saving exercise. (always before noun) |
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That change would be far easier to achieve and more practical than Villaraigosa and city officials' face-saving call to change state law to require public hearings. Bessel's book is divided into four sections: the aftermath of WW I and the face-saving myth of the undefeated but betrayed German soldier, which Hitler nurtured and exploited to rise to power; the path to WW II and the Nazi attempt to impose upon Europe a hierarchy of human worth drawn along racial lines; the conduct of the war and the monstrous actualization of the Nazi ideology; and the end of the war, with its widespread social, economic, and political consequences. But even that was more of a face-saving measure than anything, says Castaneda. |
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