The phrase "a bit embarrassing when" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that causes slight embarrassment, often followed by a specific event or circumstance.
Example: "It was a bit embarrassing when I realized I had forgotten my own birthday."
Alternatives: "somewhat awkward when" or "a little uncomfortable when".
Mackenzie Crook's new TV series, Detectorists, is available on DVD from 10 November It's always a bit embarrassing when someone asks "Where do you keep your kitchen knives?" and I show them a drawer the length of the table.
This part is a bit embarrassing when you have an audience in a public park.
It's a bit embarrassing when the Po-Po shows up at your door at 3 a.m.; and sporting black eyes the rest of your cruise will not help you make friends and influence people.
I was a bit embarrassed when my log book showed I had completed just five dives, compared to the hundreds notched up by my companions.
Even these Republican enthusiasts look a bit embarrassed when the vice-president takes a call from a sixth-grader called Cheney (christened with the moniker as a tribute to the then defence secretary) about what the administration is doing to preserve "cowboy traditions".
It's always a little bit embarrassing when you show up to work wearing the same thing as the person who shares your cubicle (a situation we're very familiar with here at The Huffington Post), but for employees at one Florida law firm, outfit coordination allegedly cost them their jobs.
She's not even a tiny bit embarrassed when all the kids in her high school stare at her.
All a bit embarrassing ReprintsThe pair met in 1995 when Mr Aznar was seeking to forge links between the PP and businessmen in Mr Pique's home region, Catalonia.
It can be a bit embarrassing to be overhead chatting if you leave it on when it's not meant to be.
That is what made me finish because, in training, it did not feel good when players were going past me too easily and it was starting to get a bit embarrassing really.
