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
Bishop	BISH-əp	English
Lavrentiy	-	Russian
Cenhelm	-	Anglo-Saxon
Anani	-	Biblical
Ogechi	-	Western African, Igbo
Rob	RAHB (English), RAWB (Dutch)	English, Dutch