Idiom
spare someone's blushes
Meaning
To save someone from embarrassment.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I changed the subject to spare his blushes.”
“She quickly hid the stain on his shirt to spare his blushes during the presentation.”
“The teacher chose to overlook the student's minor error in front of the class to spare his blushes.”
Examples
simple
“I changed the subject to spare his blushes.”
contextual
“She quickly hid the stain on his shirt to spare his blushes during the presentation.”
complex
“The teacher chose to overlook the student's minor error in front of the class to spare his blushes.”
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