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
Leticia	le-TEE-thyah (Spanish), le-TEE-syah (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Maxine	[mæk'si:n]
HÉCtor	EK-tor	Spanish
Clarence	KLER-ənts, KLAR-ənts	English
Vikentiy	-	Russian
Cunigund	-	Ancient Germanic