(have) egg on your faceEMBARRASSEDif someone, especially someone in authority, has egg on their face, they have been made to look stupid by something embarrassing 〔尤指有权威的人〕丢脸，出丑 The Pentagon’s been left with egg on its face. 五角大楼颜面尽失。
(have) egg on your face• Meanwhile, Hutcheson observed that in 1995 all the chip forecasters had varying degrees of egg on their face.• People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.• If we think they are easy meat we will end up with egg on our faces.
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