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Among the English words of Chinese origin, lose face is an uncommon verb phrase and a unique semantic loan translation. Most Anglo-Chinese borrowings are nouns, [16]: 250 with a few exceptions such as to kowtow, to Shanghai, to brainwash, and lose face. English face, meaning "prestige" or "honor", is the only case of a Chinese semantic loan.
The greater potential for loss of face requires greater redressive action. If the potential for loss of face is too great, the speaker may make the decision to abandon the face-threatening acts completely and say nothing. The number next to each strategy corresponds to the danger-level of the particular face-threatening act.
Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive overreaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.
"Facts. @jenniferaniston taught me too lo'," Gomez, 32, wrote over a clip that highlighted the similarities between her losing face and the one Rachel demonstrated in Friends.
[8] [9] Xu Xiaomin of The China Daily described the sheng nus as "a social force to be reckoned with" and others have argued the term should be taken as a positive to mean "successful women". [10] [11] The slang term, 3S or 3S Women, meaning "single, seventies (1970s), and stuck" has also been used in place of sheng nu. [11] [12]
A 91-year-old man, whose longtime home burned down in the ongoing fires in Los Angeles, is grieving the loss — but looking forward.. Dale Short got emotional as he reacted to the news that his ...
Ozempic face is a term coined by Frank to describe how the faces of patients who lose a lot of weight quickly on weight loss medications may become sagging and even look older. This is because the ...
Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...