show one's face



show one's face

Appear, as in She was so upset that we were sure she'd never show her face at the theater again. This idiom has appeared in slightly different forms, such as show one's neck or visage or nose, since about 1225.
See also: face, show

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Chlodochar-Ancient Germanic
Josephine['dʒəuzifi:n]
ErosER-aws (English)Greek Mythology
Alkeides-Greek Mythology
Cassandrakə-SAN-drə (English), kə-SAHN-drə (English), kahs-SAHN-drah (Italian)English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
ErikE-rik (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German), E-reek (Finnish), AY-rik (Dutch), ER-ik (English)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, German, Dutch, Eng