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  What it means

  Literally “to lose face.” Means to lose one’s dignity, reputation, or standing in the eyes of others — a direct calque of the English/Asian concept of “losing face.”

  Vocabulary

  • tracić — to lose, to waste
  • twarz — face

  Grammar note

  Accusative object: tracić twarz (imperfective); stracić twarz (perfective).

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