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to someone's face

to someone's face prepositional phrase: while looking into someone's eyes, in person; directly; brazenly, shamelessly.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (figuratively) While looking into someone's eyes, in person; directly; brazenly, shamelessly.
    • to lie to someone's face

Questions about to someone's face

What does to someone's face mean?
To someone's face means while looking into someone's eyes, in person; directly; brazenly, shamelessly.
What part of speech is to someone's face?
To someone's face is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to someone's face in the dictionary

  1. to say nothing of
  2. to say the least
  3. to scale
  4. to some extent
  5. to someone's credit
  6. to someone's face
  7. to someone's liking
  8. to someone's taste
  9. to spare
  10. to speak of
  11. to start off with

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