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It sounds okay to me.
And to me as well...
I wonder if "He lost his face" is also possible....
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.
@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.
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).
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