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"etymology_text": "Attested by 1948.",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He really has egg on his face after that gaffe."
},
{
"ref": "2007 April 1, “Bishop blocks gay youth worker's job”, in The Observer",
"text": "I hope the bishop of Hereford comes out of this with a great deal of egg on his face.",
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"Embarrassment or humiliation; damage to one's reputation."
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"(informal) Embarrassment or humiliation; damage to one's reputation."
],
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "面上無光"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miànshàngwúguāng",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "面上无光"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "出醜"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chūchǒu",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "出丑"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "een figuur slaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "tahrata maineensa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "être en porte-à-faux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schamesröte im Gesicht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "fare una figuraccia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udáritʹ v grjazʹ licom",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "уда́рить в грязь лицом"
}
]
}
],
"word": "egg on one's face"
}
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"examples": [
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"text": "He really has egg on his face after that gaffe."
},
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"ref": "2007 April 1, “Bishop blocks gay youth worker's job”, in The Observer",
"text": "I hope the bishop of Hereford comes out of this with a great deal of egg on his face.",
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"translations": [
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "面上無光"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miànshàngwúguāng",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "面上无光"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "出醜"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chūchǒu",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "出丑"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "een figuur slaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "tahrata maineensa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "être en porte-à-faux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schamesröte im Gesicht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "fare una figuraccia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udáritʹ v grjazʹ licom",
"sense": "suffer embarrassment or humiliation",
"word": "уда́рить в грязь лицом"
}
],
"word": "egg on one's face"
}
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