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
Ulriikka	OOL-ree:k-kah	Finnish (Rare)
Jarl	YAHRL (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish)	Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Norse Mythology, Ancient Scandinavian
Hildebert	HIL-de-bert	German
Ash	[æʃ]
Yidel	-	Yiddish
Dagny	DAHNG-nuy (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish