| 单词 | to meet in the face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto meet (a person, etc.) in the face a. to meet (a person, etc.) in the face: to confront (a person, etc.) directly. Also figurative. Now rare. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 2538 Ȝe of knyȝthod..take on honde..like a man to mete hem in þe face. 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mad-cap 19 Money, oh God, it carries such a grace, That it dare meete the Diuel in the face. a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggg2v Like the Pesant, That dares not meet the Lyon in the face, [thou] Digst crafty pit-fals. 1780 Monthly Rev. May 401 The accumulated repetitions of the fame facts, reasonings, proofs, and explications, which meet us full in the face where we least expect them. 1807 C. I. M. Dibdin Mirth & Metre 101 The Stag thinks a pack up yon hill in full speed Are rising to meet him, poor fool! in the face. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xiv. 193 Seldom meeting them in the face or reaching a decision which marks an advance. 1922 W. D. Lighthall Old Measures 20 Thank those who there have fought the trees, And howling wolves and bears. They met the proud woods in the face. < as lemmas |
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