face-saving
- s maintaining dignity or prestige
a face-saving compromise
- How Washington Republicans, who have staked their political success on his failure on health care, could find a face-saving way to change course and work with him or why they .
- If he is willing to merely to have some face-saving arrangement whereby a few inspections use diplomats from various United Nations countries to accompany the professional .
- Administration officials remain adamant that their first review was thorough and proper, so the face-saving element was crucial, according to one Capitol Hill negotiator.