to one's face

Openly, directly, as in I do not have the nerve to tell him to his face that he wasn't invited and shouldn't have come . This idiom alludes to a direct confrontation. [Mid-1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
NguyÊN	-	Vietnamese
Philander	-	English (Archaic), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Bermudo	-	Spanish (Archaic)
Barclay	-	Scottish, English (Rare)
Jukka	YOOK-kah	Finnish
Adeane	[ə'di:n]