单词 | to face out of countenance |
释义 | > as lemmasto face out of countenance f. to face out of countenance: to disconcert, embarrass, confound; = to put out of countenance at countenance n.1 6b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff lviii. 502 I faced him [sc. the Sheriff] out of countenance with my unmuzzled bull dogs. 1854 Punch 27 May 222/1 Is he to be faced out of countenance by a young whipper-snapper? 1937 H. E. Fosdick Successful Christian Living 170 Faced out of countenance..by the immediacies of this troubled time. < as lemmas |
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