Then he'll know, and I won't make an embarrassing scene.
He had either to yield somewhat or to risk an embarrassing scene with a strange child.
He didn't want to be the cause of an embarrassing scene between her and the man.
Whatever the cause, her presence promised nothing but a hideously embarrassing scene.
At the party, the embarrassing scenes are prolonged to eternity.
So he was safe from a potentially embarrassing scene.
And so after this embarrassing scene, she was no better off than she had been before.
But if a zealot had overheard, an embarrassing scene would have followed.
Then came an embarrassing scene in which Morris's girlfriend got into a fight with another woman at a teammate's party.
Short of making an embarrassing scene, she hadn't much option.