"Egg on my face" nghĩa là gì?

How about "egg face"? Photo courtesy: Ahmed Saqr

"Egg on one's face" = dính trứng trên mặt -> nghĩa là cảm thấy xấu hổ, ngu ngốc về hành động hoặc lời nói của mình.

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If you ask any more personal questions, you'll end up with egg on your face.

In another show of egg on face for sports people in Kenya, athletes and the women's volleyball team preparing to represent the country at the Africa Games in Morocco were thrown out of their hotel rooms at the St. Luke's Hotel along Thika Road on Tuesday night over non-payment of accommodation bills.

Problem is, the average online browser/social media user doesn’t have the time or wherewithal (theo đó) to investigate the legitimacy (tính hợp pháp) or provenance (xuất xứ) of everything that shows up on their feeds. And it is this vulnerability (lổ hổng) that less scrupulous (cẩn trọng) content generators exploit to spread misinformation, with results that can range from a little egg-on-face embarrassment to downright life-changing or potentially deadly consequences.

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