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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)

a saving grace

a good quality that makes you like something or someone although you do not like anything else about them. It's a small cinema and the seats are uncomfortable, but the saving grace is that people aren't allowed to eat during the film.

See also: grace