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
Anstice	['ænstis]
Naheed	-	Persian
TristÃO	-	Portuguese
Bente	BEN-te (Danish, Norwegian), BEN-tə (Dutch)	Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Bajer	['baiər]
Nerida	-	Indigenous Australian