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spare someone's blushes en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To save someone from embarrassment.
    • Cesc Fabregas spared Arsenal's blushes with his late spot-kick 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:
    • He faced us as we assembled for breakfast with a deprecating false modesty in his eyes, as who should say, "I know that I deserve all that you can say, but I pray you to spare my blushes by not saying it." His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the front of his jacket. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
spared someone's blushes Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spared someone's blushes Tense=Past lexicographic
sparing someone's blushes Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spares someone's blushes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

put to the blush