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spare someone's blushes en · VERB
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(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:
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put to the blush