in the face
In addition to the idiom beginning with in the face
- in the face of
also see:
- blue in the face
- fly in the face
- look one in the face
- red in the face
- slap in the face
- stare in the face
- talk someone's arm off (until blue in the face)
Words Nearby in the face
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How to use in the face in a sentence
Glitter bombs are just the newest iteration of the old fashioned pie-in-the-face that comes right out of the anarchist playbook.
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney’s Political Humor (VIDEOS) | Mark Katz | February 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTComedian Soupy Sales, pioneer of the pie-in-the-face prank, died Thursday at age 83.
Then old Rain-in-the-Face bade the boy good-by, and they rode off without poor Billy's blessing following them.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. | Prentiss IngrahamAt this point Rain-in-the-Face took up his tobacco pouch and began again to fill his pipe.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. EastmanRain-in-the-Face was killed when he put down his weapons before the Great Father.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
At one time the guardhouse at the fort had a distinguished occupant, Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux warrior.
North Dakota | VariousOnly my friendship with the children of old Rain-in-the-Face had saved me.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) | Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
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