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face to face

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face to face
if two people meet or talk face to face, they meet or talk when they are both together in the same place. I'd prefer to sort this problem out face to face rather than over the phone. She's been writing to her cousin in Australia for years but they've never met face to face.
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Now, though his conviction that jealousy was a shameful feeling and that one ought to feel confidence, had not broken down, he felt that he was standing face to face with something illogical and irrational, and did not know what was to be done.
Prest, and we stood face to face in the empty pompous hall.
what should be leaving my room, as I advanced to enter it, but--well, it's no use, resolutions are all very well, but facts are facts, especially when they're natural, and here was I face to face with the most natural little natural fact, and withal the most charming and merry-eyed, that-- well, in short, as I came to enter my room I was confronted by the roundest, ruddiest little chambermaid ever created for the trial of mortal frailty.
 
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