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
Yevgeny	yev-GYE-nee, eev-GYE-nee	Russian
Thorstein	-	Norwegian
TaÍS	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Pierina	pye-REE-nah	Italian
Lygia	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Levi	['li:vai]