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
LinnÉA	lin-NE-ah	Swedish
Somboon	-	Thai
Abbey	['æbi]
Olivera	-	Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Angelita	-	Spanish
Koert	KOORT	Dutch