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face someone down to make a face-to-face stand with someone who eventually backs down. Chuck succeeded in facing Tom down. Facing down Tom wasn't difficult for Chuck. See also: face face something down to turn something face downward. Ted drew a card and faced it down. Face your cards down when you leave the card table. See also: face How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I shall refer to these again presently, but we will turn them face down now. She laid the hand face down again on the table, and slowly the lingering eyes withdrew from her, having learned nothing. He paused to look down at Cesar, who, as I have said before, was lying full length face down by the foremast, then stepped over him, and dived out of my sight under the foresail. |
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