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.