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
Pauline	['pɔ:lain]
MyrgjÖL	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Beylke	-	Yiddish
Tuure	-	Finnish
Namrata	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali
Manley	MAN-lee	English