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
Octavian	ahk-TAYV-ee-ən (English)	History, Romanian
Lake	LAYK	English (Rare)
Adad	-	Near Eastern Mythology
Sree	-	Indian, Telugu, Tamil
Kaoru	kah-o-ṙoo	Japanese
Caden	KAY-dən	English (Modern)