Usage examples of "face-saver".
This unbelievable reprieve gave him the face-saver he desperately needed, and now if he could finesse them just a little further.
The slob grumbled, by way of a face-saver, “Where’d you get the fancy clothes?
Saddam Hussein will not pull out of Kuwait unless he is given an out, a face-saver, which we will ensure he does not get.