lost face

When asked why he kept going, the elderly owner of the pineapple processing company told the BBC he could not stop because he felt he had lost face.

The U.S. has lost face on the world stage by ignoring Syrian President Bashar Assad’s war crimes, according to a top Syrian-American activist, who warns Washington is dangerously in denial of the fallout from Mr. Assad’s emergence as the victor of the country’s more than decade-long civil war.

"This is the biggest humiliation in history! Li Yifeng, you have truly lost face," read one popular Weibo post.

Real Madrid's inability to get the Mbappe deal over the line means they have not only lost weight and prestige in the market in the eyes of the watching world, but most importantly they have lost face.

“In the first round, Russia has lost face both politically and militarily,” Zhdanov said.