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look in the face

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look someone in the face and look someone in the eye; stare someone in the face
Fig. to face someone directly. (Facing someone this way is a sign of sincerity.) I don't believe you. Look me in the eye and say that, She looked him in the face and said she never wanted to see him again.
See also: face, look

look somebody in the face
to look directly at someone without fear or shame I don't know how you can look your sister in the face after what you've done.
See also: face, look


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Look in the face of him and you'll see it wrote there.
“Is it no harm, Benny Pump,” said Natty, raising his eyes with a piteous look in the face of the steward—” is it no harm to show off a man in his seventy-first year, like a tame bear, for the settlers to look on?
 
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