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Guardar las apariencias

To keep up appearances / To save face

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Notes & Usage:

Describes maintaining an outward show of normality or respectability even when things are going wrong underneath.

See It in Context

Sonreía para guardar las apariencias, aunque por dentro estaba destrozado.

He smiled to keep up appearances, even though inside he was devastated.

En público intentaban guardar las apariencias.

In public they tried to keep up appearances.

—¿Cómo está la empresa? —Mal, pero guardan las apariencias.

—How is the company? —Badly, but they're keeping up appearances.

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