He lost face. - English example sentence

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human600 June 7, 2012 June 7, 2012 at 6:00:45 AM UTC

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NNC:
It sounds okay to me.

FeuDRenais January 7, 2013 January 7, 2013 at 2:23:53 PM UTC

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And to me as well...

sharptoothed January 7, 2013 January 7, 2013 at 2:29:42 PM UTC

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I wonder if "He lost his face" is also possible....

sysko January 7, 2013 January 7, 2013 at 2:39:21 PM UTC

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Note, I'm removing the @NNC as CK (user id 1396) has put a OK tag a long time ago ,and the sentence hasn't changed since.

human600 January 12, 2013 January 12, 2013 at 7:26:04 PM UTC

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@sharptoothed: "lost his face" is definitely _not_ possible.

I don't know where it comes from (perhaps from Chinese), but at this point it's an idiom - to lose face, he lost face, I don't want to embarrass him and make him lose face, etc.

sharptoothed January 12, 2013 January 12, 2013 at 9:16:33 PM UTC

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Thanks for the explanation. I asked because in Russian we have the same idiom and it's possible to say both "потерять лицо" (to lose face) and "потерять своё лицо" (to lose one's face).