to accept (an unpleasant fact, reality , etc)

If you say something to someone's face , you say it openly in their presence.

If you show your face somewhere , you go there and see people, although you are not welcome , are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.

If you lose face , you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face , you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration .

If an action or belief flies in the face of accepted ideas or rules , it seems to completely oppose or contradict them.

If you manage to keep a straight face , you manage to look serious , although you want to laugh .

to meet someone and talk to them directly

If you make a face , you show a feeling such as dislike or disgust by putting an exaggerated expression on your face, for example by sticking out your tongue . In British English , you can also say pull a face .

If someone laughs in your face , they are openly disrespectful towards you.

to be forced to experience a problem or the reality of a situation, and have to deal with it or accept it

to say something openly in someone's presence, especially something critical or unpleasant

You can say that someone has set their face against something to indicate that they are opposed to it, especially when you want to suggest that they are wrong .

If you manage to keep a straight face , you manage to look serious , although you want to laugh .

to do something in order to hurt another person, without realizing or caring that you will hurt yourself just as much or even more

If you say that someone is cutting off their nose to spite their face , you mean they do something that they think will hurt someone, without realizing or caring that it will hurt themselves as well .

to carry out a vengeful action that hurts oneself more than another

If someone has egg on their face or has egg all over their face , they have been made to look foolish .

If you look someone in the eye or look them in the face , you look straight at their eyes in a bold and open way, for example in order to make them realize that you are telling the truth .

If someone shuts the door in your face or slams the door in your face , they refuse to talk to you or give you any information .

If a feeling is written all over your face or is written across your face , it is very obvious to other people from your expression .

If you say that something wipes the smile off someone's face , you mean that it suddenly spoils their enjoyment or removes an advantage that they had and that you are pleased about it.