"spare someone's blushes" meaning in English

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      "form": "spared someone's blushes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:",
          "text": "Cesc Fabregas spared Arsenal's blushes with his late spot-kick",
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        "To save someone from embarrassment."
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        "(idiomatic) To save someone from embarrassment."
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        {
          "word": "put to the blush"
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        "To save someone from embarrassment."
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        "(idiomatic) To save someone from embarrassment."
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