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
Pankaj-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali
Tuttle['tʌtl]
Antigone[æn'tigəni:]
Hulda (1)HUWL-dah (German)Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Norse Mythology
Italia-Italian
NoËLleno-EL (French)French, Dutch