lose face

Anglais

Étymologie
(Date à préciser) Calque du chinois 丟臉, diū liǎn, signifiant littéralement « perdre la face ».

Locution verbale

lose face \ˈluːz ˈfeɪs\

  1. (Sens figuré) Perdre la face.
    • Ahithophel, Absalom’s chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected. — (John Shelby Spong, Beyond Moralism: A Contemporary View of the Ten Commandments, HarperCollins (2000), ISBN 9781878282149, page non numérotée, 1986)
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    • When you start to feel unmotivated, you will look for ways to weasel out of your commitments. We all do it. If there’s a stealth way to back out, without ever losing face, you will do it without hesitation. — (Mel Robbins, Stop Saying You’re Fine: Discover a More Powerful You, Crown Archetype (2011), ISBN 9780307716729, page 221, 2011)
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    • He had arranged for one of his managers to be present in the office with us, so I should have realised immediately that there was little chance of him backing down since that would have meant losing face in front of a subordinate. — (Sharon Pincott, Battle for the President’s Elephants: Life, Lunacy and Elation in the African Bush, Jacana Media (2012), ISBN 9781431403592, page 97, 2012)
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Apparentés étymologiques
  • loss of face

Vocabulaire apparenté par le sens
  • give face
  • save face

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