"spare someone's blushes" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-spare someone's blushes.ogg [Australia] Forms: spares someone's blushes [present, singular, third-person], sparing someone's blushes [participle, present], spared someone's blushes [participle, past], spared someone's blushes [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=spare someone's blushes}} spare someone's blushes (third-person singular simple present spares someone's blushes, present participle sparing someone's blushes, simple past and past participle spared someone's blushes)
  1. (idiomatic) To save someone from embarrassment. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: put to the blush
    Sense id: en-spare_someone's_blushes-en-verb-uCnx~buZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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