save blushes

save/spare somebody's blushes

(British & Australian)

to do something to prevent someone feeling embarrassed Granger saved the team's blushes by scoring the only goal in the last five minutes of the game. The audience's blushes were spared because the censors had removed all the explicit sex scenes from the film.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tine (2)	-	Slovene
Ralph	[reif]
Crescentius	-	Late Roman
Bahar	bah-HAHR (Turkish)	Persian, Turkish
Balbino	-	Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Alfonso	ahl-FON-so (Spanish), ahl-FAWN-so (Italian)	Spanish, Italian