Medical marijuana is now legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Of those states, Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Colorado's first retail marijuana stores opened Jan. 1 for sale to people 21 years and older.
In the English-speaking world, the expression to save face describes the lengths that an individual may go to in order to preserve their established position in society, taking action to ensure that one is not thought badly of by his or her peers.
In keeping with the above discussion, it essentially refers to disadvantaging ourselves in order to do harm to an adversary. As to the origin of this phrase, the precise wording âcut off your nose to spite your faceâ does not appear in print until the 18th century. Versions of proverbs that mean much the same thing date back to the Tudor era.