Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• Ahithophel, Absalom's chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected.
• When you start to feel unmotivated, you will look for ways to weasel out of your commitments. We all do it. If there's a stealth way to back out, without ever losing face, you will do it without hesitation.
• He had arranged for one of his managers to be present in the office with us, so I should have realised immediately that there was little chance of him backing down since that would have meant losing face in front of a subordinate.