source of embarrassment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourceandembarrassment
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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embarrassment
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪmˈbær.əs.mənt/us/ɪmˈber.əs.mənt/
the feeling of being embarrassed, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofsourceandembarrassmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As the war progressed into its final phase, party membership became less a source of authority or prestige within the community and more and more asourceofembarrassment.
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A constantsourceofembarrassmentto local authorities has been the rating system.
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Clearly, the common agricultural policy has been a gravesourceofembarrassmentto successive governments.
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They have gone further than that; they have been a constantsourceofembarrassment.
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It is asourceofembarrassmentto me politically that we think alike on so many occasions.
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They contain eight figures and are, therefore, asourceofembarrassmentto aged people.
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I am not offering the advice to-day as asourceofembarrassment.
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The floating debt is certainly very cheap, but it is a potentialsourceofembarrassment.
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If for some reason the wife obtains relief from tax, these sums are repayable to the husband—a considerablesourceofembarrassmentat the least.
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This will be seen as double standards, and that is asourceofembarrassment.
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It is a realsourceofembarrassmentto their families.
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It was also potentially a majorsourceofembarrassmentto us in our relations with those allies who were consulted about the timetable.
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I do not believe that such caution is a matter of shame, nor should it be asourceofembarrassment.
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This reduction, however, seems to increase the risk that private photographs, particularly of public people, will be published in ways that will be asourceofembarrassmentto the subjects.
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There has been some concern over the length of time records may be kept, and the possibility of their becoming asourceofembarrassmentin later years.
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It is asourceofembarrassmentthat we have failed to ratify so many of these treaties which have been in existence for so many years.
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That is asourceofembarrassment.
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I find this name extremely difficult and it is even asourceofembarrassmentfor me.
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But there was onesourceofembarrassmentgreater than all the rest.
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