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
Columbine	KAHL-əm-bien	English (Rare)
Ralf	RAHLF (German), RALF (English), RAYF (English)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English (Rare)
Wilmer	WIL-mər	English
Regina	[ri'dʒainə]
Calfuray	kal-foo-RAW-ee	Native American, Mapuche
Trystan	-	Welsh