egg on face
Looking foolish publicly
Egg on face describes the embarrassment of being publicly wrong or foolish.
The image is of someone with breakfast splattered on their face, oblivious to how ridiculous they look: The failed prediction left the forecasters with egg on their face.
Usually appears with "have" or "end up with."
- embarrassedSelf-consciously uncomfortable
- humiliatedMade to feel worthless
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- mortifiedIntensely embarrassed
awkward · flustered · foot in mouth · foolish · gaffe · social faux pas · mistake · caught · caught off guard · exposed · backfire · oops · sheepish · eating crow · chagrined · ridiculous · stupid · cringe
- awkward momentsoops, cringe, embarrassment, yikes, awkward
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- food idiomspiece of cake, bread winner, low-hanging fruit, cool as a cucumber, apples and oranges
- social blundersgaffe, faux pas, misstep, blooper, flub
- embarrassmentembarrassed, blush, humiliated, mortify, mortified
- Incompetencebungle, failure, botch, inability, blunder
egg on facevindication
Clearance of blame
vindicated · I told you so · triumph · validation · exoneration
egg on facesaving face
Maintaining public honor
vindication · face-saving · glory · feather in one's cap · triumph
egg on facevindication
Clearance of blame
I told you so · prophetic · prescient · called it · on the money
egg, eggs, egged, egging, face, faces, faced, facing, facial