I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cliff face (= a steep surface or side of a cliff )
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Some climbers were scrambling up the steep cliff face.
a grin on sb’s face
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He looked at Sarah, a big grin on his face.
a smile spreads across sb’s face (= they smile )
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A faint smile spread across her face.
a task faces sb
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Given the nature of the task facing us, three days might not be enough.
as plain as day/the nose on your face (= very clear )
be awaiting/facing trial
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Its managing director is awaiting trial on corruption charges.
be faced with a choice
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He was faced with a difficult choice.
blank face/look/expression/eyes
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Zoe looked at me with a blank expression.
cupped...face
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He cupped her face in his hands and kissed her.
experience/face discrimination
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Government figures suggest that ethnic minorities face discrimination looking for jobs.
face a ban
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He faced a four-year ban after failing a drugs test.
face a battle
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Paul faces a frantic battle to be fit for the match in November.
face a bill (= have a lot to pay on a bill )
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They were facing a mounting legal bill.
face a bleak/grim etc future
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Many pensioners face a bleak future.
face a challenge (= have to deal with one )
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The company still faces some challenges.
face a crisis
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Many families are facing a debt crisis.
face a deficit
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The party is facing a deficit of £1.3million for this year, so it must find ways of cutting its costs.
face a dilemma/be faced with a dilemma
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Women may still be faced with the dilemma of choosing between jobs and families.
face a dilemma/be faced with a dilemma
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Women may still be faced with the dilemma of choosing between jobs and families.
face a nation
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There are many problems facing our nation.
face a penalty
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He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment.
face a problem
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Terrorism is possibly the most important problem facing western countries.
face a risk
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The dominant male faces the risk that adult males from the group will attack him.
face a sentence (= be likely to receive a sentence )
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He faces a long prison sentence if he is caught.
face a shortage (= be likely to suffer a shortage )
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The refugees face desperate shortages of food and water.
face a threat (= likely to be affected by something )
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The factory is facing the threat of closure.
face an accusation (= have an accusation made about you )
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The police faced accusations of using excessive force.
face an issue (= accept that an issue exists and deal with it )
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Politicians seem to be reluctant to face the issue.
face an obstacle (= have to deal with an obstacle )
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The investigation has faced numerous obstacles.
face an opponent
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The team were facing their final opponent of the season.
face an ordeal
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He faced the ordeal of caring for his dying wife.
face card
face charges (= have been charged with a crime )
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A farmer is facing charges of cruelty and neglect.
face competition (from sb)
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Website designers face increasing competition.
face cream
face criticism
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He has often faced criticism in the local press.
face danger
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Today’s police officers face danger every day.
face defeat (= be likely to be defeated )
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In May 1945 Germany faced defeat at the hands of the Allies.
face delays (= be likely to experience them )
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Commuters face long delays as a result of the rail strikes.
face difficulties
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The hotel’s owners were facing financial difficulties.
face down (= with his face towards the ground )
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Ken fell asleep face down on the couch.
face downwards (= with the front of the body on the floor )
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The body was lying face downwards .
face execution (= be due to be killed )
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He is facing execution after being found guilty of murdering three women.
face extinction (= be likely to stop existing soon )
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The red squirrel faces extinction in England and Wales unless conservation measures are taken.
face hardship (= will be affected by a difficult or painful situation )
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One in four families in Britain is facing financial hardship.
face (in) a direction
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The men were facing the direction from which they expected the attack.
face legal action
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The council demanded that we remove the posters, or face legal action.
face opposition (= experience opposition that has to be dealt with )
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The proposal faced opposition from road safety campaigners.
face pack
face powder
face prosecution
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The owners of a golf course are facing prosecution for blocking footpaths.
face reality (= accept it )
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It's painful, but you have to face reality.
face redundancy
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Up to 300 leather factory workers are facing redundancy.
face ruin
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Many shopkeepers are facing ruin.
face saver
face the prospect (of sth)
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Now they face the prospect of unemployment.
face time
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Here we reward performance, not face time.
face value (= the value printed on something )
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The tickets are selling for far more than their face value.
face value
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You shouldn’t always take his remarks at face value.
face/suffer the consequences (= accept the bad results of something you have done )
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He broke the law, and he will have to face the consequences.
face/tackle/meet sth head-on
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The police are trying to tackle car crime head-on.
facing famine
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A million people are facing famine .
facing/looking/spreading etc outwards
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Stand with your elbows pointing outwards.
fix...face (= put on make-up )
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Hold on. Let me just fix my face before we go out.
forgets a face (= forgets who someone is )
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He’s someone who never forgets a face .
foxy face
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a foxy face
freckled face/skin
full face
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In portraits, chiefs were invariably shown full face.
full figure/face/breasts etc
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clothes for the fuller figure
have a smile on your face/lips
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They all had broad smiles on their faces.
have an expression on your face
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He had a very serious expression on his face.
impassive face
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Her impassive face showed no reaction at all.
in the face of adversity
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his courage in the face of adversity
in the face of competition (= in a situation where you are competing to be successful )
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They won the contract in the face of tough competition.
keep a straight face
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I found it very difficult to keep a straight face .
kick sb in the stomach/face/shin etc
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There was a scuffle and he kicked me in the stomach.
laugh till you cry/laugh till the tears run down your face
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He leaned back in his chair and laughed till the tears ran down his face.
lose face (= stop having as much respect from other people )
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A settlement was reached in which neither side lost face.
meet/face your nemesis
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In the final he will meet his old nemesis, Roger Federer.
powdering...face
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She was powdering her face .
rock face
sallow face/skin/complexion
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a woman with dark hair and a sallow complexion
sb breaks into a smile/sb’s face breaks into a smile (= they suddenly smile )
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Anna’s face broke into a smile at the prospect of a guest.
sb's face is dark/red/purple with rage
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His face went purple with rage.
sb's face is twisted/contorted with rage
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Mike's usually calm face was contorted with rage.
smack in the mouth/face/gob
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Talk like that and I’ll give you a smack in the mouth.
smash sb’s face/head in (= hit someone hard in the face or head )
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I’ll smash his head in if he comes here again!
smug expression/look/face/smile etc
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‘I knew I’d win,’ she said with a smug smile.
sour look/face/smile etc
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Eliza was tall and thin, with a rather sour face.
stand/face trial (= be judged in a court of law )
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Doctors said he was unfit to stand trial.
straight to his face (= speaking directly to him )
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I told him straight to his face what I thought of him.
tears run/roll/stream down sb’s face
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Oliver laughed until tears ran down his face.
the expression on sb’s face
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I could tell by the expression on her face that she was angry.
the face of a clock/the clock face (= the front part that you look at )
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I couldn’t see the clock face from where I was sitting.
the face of a clock/the clock face (= the front part that you look at )
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I couldn’t see the clock face from where I was sitting.
the opposite/facing page
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See the diagram on the opposite page.
troubled face/eyes/look
turn sth to face sth/sb
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Could you turn your chairs to face this way ?
upturned face
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He smiled down into her upturned face .
vanish without (a) trace/vanish off the face of the earth (= disappear so that no sign remains )
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The youngster vanished without a trace one day and has never been found.
with a pained expression on his face
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He sat stiffly, with a pained expression on his face .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brave
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She may have put a brave face on it.
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Whether in denial or putting on a brave face , the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
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Newspaper staff put on a brave face .
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No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face .
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Her brave and beaming face was duplicated on the reversed covers.
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In 1982, despite all our attempts at putting on a brave collective face , we knew we would lose.
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He was shattered, though he put on a brave face .
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Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face .
dark
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It would have filled the count's dark face with fury and suspicion.
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Even at that distance, I could see that his mood was dark , his face tense.
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Focusing resentfully on the dark , angular face , her heart had flipped over suddenly in her chest.
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Her dark , pretty face glittered there in front of me.
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He was tall, with a thin dark face and cool white hands.
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In the fading light of the patio, Yolanda can not make out the expression on the dark face .
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Benjamin, with his long, dark face , kindly eyes and lawyer's stoop.
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Reverend Stamina Jones was a tall, stately, white-haired man with clear eyes in an extremely dark round face .
familiar
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He voiced their torment at knowing their children would be medically examined without consent and without any familiar face being present.
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It therefore seems that he ascribes this voice to a visually familiar face .
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It's always nice to see a friendly familiar face .
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He had shunned the opposition, reshuffled his government with familiar faces and retained the prime minister many wanted out.
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But this could soon be the more familiar face of coal production in Gloucestershire.
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One by one the familiar names and faces of the independence period were passing from the political picture.
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Social needs are met with familiar faces attending each week and consultations with the same nurses and doctors.
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He turned the volume up as loud as it would go and stared at the familiar faces on the screen.
human
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If successful, it will produce a deeper understanding of the human face recognition system.
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What he fails to do is to put a human face on these processes.
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A mountain that weirdly echoes the shape not of the human face but of a human artefact!
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Food brought me back to the human face .
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It was very far from being a human face .
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They become bogeymen, earthly Aliens, and -- despite the fake human faces they develop -- very easy to spot.
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To show Christopher the human face of the dreaded development.
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Whether a capitalist or socialist approach to development is adopted, it must be development with a human face .
pale
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She had a lovely pale oval madonna face with blue eyes and her hair was light-brown.
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Her blue eyes are eerily pale , her face pretty and concentrated.
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She has a modest expression and a pale sweet face .
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Her thick dark hair was swept up in spiraling tiers above a too-thin pale face .
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Her lips were swollen against her pale face and the sight of her distress seemed to infuriate him more.
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Her appearance had changed since her illness, but there was a strange beauty in her pale face .
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Nick's pale face glimmered as he looked up at her.
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Not that pale faces are making a comeback.
pretty
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He was always a horrid little boy for all his pretty face , and now he's a horrid man.
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He could be suckered in by a soft story or a pretty face .
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And his pretty face hasn't changed in all that time.
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Her dark, pretty face glittered there in front of me.
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Pity to cut such a pretty face but she'd asked for it.
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Her hair was parted in the middle and drawn back from a round, pretty face .
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A young pretty face and an invitation, and he succumbed.
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Tis not a feeling of yesterday, to be effaced by the first pretty face which crosses my path.
red
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Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face .
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McBride spluttered, yelled, got red in the face .
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Mrs Medlock was a large woman, with a very red face and bright black eyes.
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He paused, his red face turned toward the blank television set.
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She was not a beautiful woman, being tall and thin, with black hair and eyes and a very red face .
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He was short, with a red face and a redder nose.
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He went very red in the face .
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Around the bar, the sweating, red and white faces of the male tourists turn upwards in salacious worship.
straight
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How can you say that and keep a straight face ?
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Kemp is straining to maintain a straight face .
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I keep a straight face and the composure of a chemist dispensing a prescription.
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We start with safe conversation and straight faces .
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The plot is one that you can hardly repeat with a straight face .
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Despite the problem of trying to maintain a straight face , there are distinct advantages to being on Cube's team.
white
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The ambulance doors closed out the white face of my recently acquired 17-year-old husband.
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Immediately upon their entrance, they were washed by a shoal of white faces gazing at them from behind cold masks.
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A clutch of long white Friday evening faces confronted me.
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He saw their white faces and felt their cold hands.
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His white face was spiteful, threatening and suggestive.
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He's got long fair hair and a little white face too.
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When she came to, she was in a chair and Jack was all white in the face , looking at her.
■ VERB
bury
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Then she struggled up, burying her face in his hand and her own.
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With a sob, Theda flung her arms about his neck and buried her face in his shoulder.
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Suddenly he raced across the stage and buried his face behind the curtain.
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Then with a groan, he buried his face in her neck and began stroking her thighs.
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She buried her face in his neck and felt the warmth of his skin against her face.
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With a choked sob she brought the bear closer until she had buried her face in it.
change
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Ambush marketing has changed the face of sport and sport sponsorship.
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Following the Civil War came the period of rapid railroad develop-ment that changed the face of Kansas for ever.
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Version 3.0 and the further improved 3.1 version of Microsoft Windows have changed the face of modern Personal Computing.
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By doing so, they say they hope to change not only the face of Downtown housing, but the whole economy.
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A decade of merger-mania has changed the face of Los Angeles.
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But their ancestors had changed the face of California earth.
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Like stepping out of your skin, like changing your face .
cross
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A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation.
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Some sort of unpleasant thought crossed her face .
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Nate Cocello allowed a knowing smile to cross his face at what he knew would be the natural reactions of line managers.
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A cynical smile crossed his face , hidden behind the lip of the beer glass.
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When the doctor saw me sitting beside the boy a puzzled look crossed his face .
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A sly grin crossed his face as he thought of an alternative billet in which to spend what remained of the night.
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I sat down by the side of Blyth, careful not to let my shadow cross his face .
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No flicker of guilt crossed his face , no softening.
fall
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She stepped back, shivering slightly when fitzAlan's hand fell away from her face .
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As the youth smoked a cigarette, shadows fell across his face .
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Then he reached out and drew the hair back from where it had fallen across her face .
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But once the ball tips, the game falls flat on its face faster than a top-ranked team after a first-round upset.
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How stupid to fall on your face .
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As we were going out to the car Babe slipped and fell flat on her face .
fly
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She left her head where it was, and glimpsed the satisfaction that flew across Luke's face .
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But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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The decades since Malthus's time have seen progress of a kind that flies in the face of everything he foresaw.
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And all my frustration was flying in their faces .
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I find this hard to believe since it flies in the face of all the principles of wrestling.
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Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.
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When she was ecstatic, and she was often ecstatic, ecstasy flew from her face like the sun from a mirror.
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Whatever the riddle is called, it flies in the face of 3, 000 years of logical philosophy.
lie
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It's fantastic, John, there she is, a new person, lying on her face , sound asleep.
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I unlocked the door and went in and lay face down on the bed.
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Douglas went down to the cells to talk to Marco, who was lying face down on the narrow cot.
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A man lay face down, feet toward the center, head away from it.
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Now he could see that it was lying face down.
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Side by side, the two men lay face down in the grass, feet toward the rear of the pale car.
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She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel.
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The view while lying face down, shielding our eyes from the sun with our hands, was superb.
pull
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And she pulled a face back at him.
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He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some, and that I was probably just blacking out.
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Without meaning to, he pulled a face .
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She pulled a face at the speaker.
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He likes me to smile at the camera, so twice I pulled shocking faces .
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Her hair was pulled back from her face and tied in a bun.
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I wear sweats and my hair is pulled from my face with a rubber band.
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At the end, she pulls her face into a lion.
save
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I had to do this to save face for my father.
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The only person that didn't was Fish, who had to save face and went on claiming it was true.
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Determined to save face , I kept devouring everything set before me.
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We may accept them, to oblige: to save another's face .
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By agreeing to the staged confrontation, Barnett would save face while permitting Meredith to register.
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There was an awkward silence which Maidstone might have broken with some amiable remark to save Sandison's face .
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As a result of the turmoil, Frank resigned in order to save face .
slap
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The door to Joe's house closed suddenly and Nina felt as though she had been slapped in the face .
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Vasili shook her shoulders violently then slapped her across the face .
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It was like somebody slapped me across my face .
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That hurt him almost as much as when I slapped his face for not letting me escape.
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When the Chicago creature got Cyd Charisse, I slapped my face for haute le monde to see.
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It made me want to slap his face .
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Clarisa turned and slapped her face .
smile
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People were whispering about me behind my back - smiling to my face of course - but whispering behind my back.
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Instead, the smiling face of the popular 49-year-old Gov.
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He's smiling out of a rugged face , with thick black eyebrows and curling hair.
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He is also a deeply private person whose kindly, smiling face could fool you.
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Rage rarely visits that open, smiling face but Massimo was volcanic.
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The world of successful entrepreneurs is full of smiling faces and confident attitudes.
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He was tall and strong with a big, smiling face .
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He is outspoken, witty, occasionally vulgar, and when he smiles his whole face lights up.
turn
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Mrs Simpson turned her face and looked out of the window.
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We turned our faces glum to reaffirm the forced nature of this trip.
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I lay back and turned my face to it.
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She turned a terrified face to them.
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From the contemplation of this inescapable judgment he turned his face resolutely away.
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Eventually, he turns his face to the wall and encounters the photograph of the coroner from Philadelphia, Gold.
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She turned her face to him and smiled, feeling pain as she moved her head.
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They were all the same, those men, turning away their heavy faces and failing to acknowledge my greetings.
wipe
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When they spilled over, she did not wipe them from her face .
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Charles and Clarissa made thankful noises, drank a little champagne, and metaphorically wiped their faces .
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The man took a handkerchief from his suit pocket and wiped his face .
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I wipe my face on my sleeve.
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She stood up straight, wiped at her face and seemed alarmed to find it veiled.
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I wiped my face with a handkerchief and thought about Barbara Porter.
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Fakhru smiled and wiped his whole sweating face on his pyjama front, which he lifted with two hands.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(have) egg on your face
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If we think they are easy meat we will end up with egg on our faces.
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Meanwhile, Hutcheson observed that in 1995 all the chip forecasters had varying degrees of egg on their face.
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People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.
a face like thunder
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She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder .
a slap in the face
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Gwynn considered the salary they were offering a slap in the face.
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And make no mistake: He considers the Padres' offer a slap in the face -- even mimicking such a blow.
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Barnes's decision therefore came as somewhat of a slap in the face to these well rehearsed points.
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But choosing that particular moment to do it was a rebuff as callous and shocking as a slap in the face.
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It is a slap in the face and an insult.
argue/talk etc till you're blue in the face
be staring sb in the face
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Defeat was staring us in the face.
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The answer had been staring him in the face for months.
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The solution is staring you in the face.
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He thought he was staring death in the face.
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It is staring us in the face.
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With only three games to save themselves, Coventry are staring relegation in the face.
blood rushes to sb's face/cheeks
blow up in sb's face
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It was kind of funny watching the presentation blow up in Harry's face.
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Kristin knew that if anyone found out, the whole thing could blow up in her face.
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Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.
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But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
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Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.
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Liable blow up in their faces.
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Not only could be, but would be, and the whole thing would blow up in my face.
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Nothing of its kind had ever been done before, and it could have blown up in his face.
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When the clothes iron blows up in your face.
bring a smile to sb's lips/face
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He and Stapleton can associate to their hearts' content and that's something to bring a smile to his face.
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It brought a smile to her lips.
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Nothing was more likely to bring a smile to his face than being told he was talked about.
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She invented a hundred little things to make him happy, to bring a smile to his face.
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The thought brought a smile to his face.
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Their screams of horror and cries for mercy only brought a smile to my face.
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We thank him profusely, and manage to bring a smile to his face.
bury your face/head etc (in sth)
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Jessamy buried her face against her husband's shoulder.
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She gripped his hands, his shirt, burying her face in his chest, hiding and laughing at her own reaction.
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She returned to her chair and sank down into it burying her face in her hands.
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Suddenly he raced across the stage and buried his face behind the curtain.
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Then with a groan, he buried his face in her neck and began stroking her thighs.
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You will notice phrases like crocodile tears, the elephant never forgets, and the ostrich burying its head in the sand.
bury your face/head in your hands
capitalism/communism/socialism etc with a human face
compose your face/features/thoughts
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He held out his hand to his junior master and composed his face into a solemn expression of trust.
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I compose my face into a smile.
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I tried to compose my features into a combination of nonchalance and justification.
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They had composed their faces, but their eyes sparkled and their mouths yearned to smile.
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When asked a question do not rush at your answer but give yourself a second or two to compose your thoughts.
cross sb's face
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A look of horror crossed Ken's face.
cut off your nose to spite your face
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If you love him, ask him to stay. Otherwise you'll be cutting off your nose to spite your face.
fall flat on your/sth's face
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She fell flat on her face getting out of the car.
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The last time I wore high-heeled shoes I fell flat on my face outside a restaurant.
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As we were going out to the car Babe slipped and fell flat on her face.
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At last, after several near misses, I fall flat on my face.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
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But once the ball tips, the game falls flat on its face faster than a top-ranked team after a first-round upset.
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It is also a nation waiting for her to fall flat on her face.
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Writers strive for a universal experience distilled from personal memories and tend to fall flat on their faces.
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Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
feed your face
fill yourself (up)/fill your face
fly in the face of sth
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Eysenck's claim flies in the face of all the evidence.
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Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.
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Award-winning entertainment that flies in the face of gravity lands in Tucson for two nights only.
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But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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I find this hard to believe since it flies in the face of all the principles of wrestling.
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It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption.
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Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.
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This flies in the face of the cautious nature of the Bush administration.
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Whatever the riddle is called, it flies in the face of 3, 000 years of logical philosophy.
have sth/be written all over your face
horsey face/smell etc
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They gave off a pungent, horsey smell, as if freshly cut.
kick sb's head/face/teeth in
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But they would kick your head in if you spilt their pint just the same.
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It goes with some people wanting to kick my head in.
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Lou and Van burst into tears and Hamburglar kicks their heads in.
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So they are all there, kicking our teeth in.
laugh in sb's face
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I confronted my daughter, but she just laughed in my face.
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He mocks death, laughs in its face, and others of his ilk laugh in a chorus all around him.
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If she warned Ace what her father expected of him he'd laugh in her face.
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If some one had told her what was going to happen she would have laughed in their face.
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Instead, have fun with our great £25,000 series of slump-busting contests and laugh in the face of Lamont.
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Ryan laughed in my face, which is what I expected.
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The next time you hear a native-born athlete complain about adversity, remember Livan Hernandez and laugh in his face.
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This is the last in our great £25,000 series of slump-busting contests to help you laugh in the face of Lamont.
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When I was four, I told my sister about the Creation, and she laughed in my face.
let's face it/let's be honest
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Let's face it, Scott. We're not as young as we used to be.
long face
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A long face, hangdog, sad-sack, and dusty hair, reddish brown.
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Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow, and make a long face, or only metaphorically?
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He was in his early thirties with dark skin and a long face from which protruded a sharp, aquiline nose.
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His long face, punctuated by a pencil mustache, is a place of jowls, creases and inflammation.
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His eyes were wide-set, and his long face was fair-skinned: seen from certain angles it had an almost feminine prettiness.
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Never-ending telly, Mum's long face, and a turkey dinner that nobody wanted to eat, not even Henry.
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Their faces slipped through her mind, round faces and long faces, thin, fat, smiling, sombre.
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Worst of all, his long face was more contorted than ever in the fury of self-pity.
mobile mouth/face/features
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He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
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I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
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They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
not just a pretty face
purple with rage/purple in the face etc
put a human face on sth
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What he fails to do is to put a human face on these processes.
put on a brave face/front
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He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.
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I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.
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Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.
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Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.
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Newspaper staff put on a brave face.
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No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.
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Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
save face
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As a result of the turmoil, Frank resigned in order to save face.
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Bosnia would survive as a constitutional fiction, allowing the world to save face.
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By agreeing to the staged confrontation, Barnett would save face while permitting Meredith to register.
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Determined to save face, I kept devouring everything set before me.
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I had to do this to save face for my father.
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The important thing now was to let him save face.
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The only person that didn't was Fish, who had to save face and went on claiming it was true.
say sth to sb's face
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I'd never say it to her face, but her hair looks terrible.
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Never write anything in an e-mail that you wouldn't say to the person's face.
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If you had anything to say , you said it to their face.
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It is, may I suggest, much easier to say goodbye to a face than to a wooden box.
sb will be laughing on the other side of their face
screw up your eyes/face
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Blake screwed up his eyes, trying to peer through the fog.
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He screwed up his eyes against the light and Jurnet saw the gipsy in him.
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He screwed up his eyes and put his hands over his ears.
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He screwed up his face as the hot water from the kitchen tap scalded his hand.
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He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back.
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She screwed up her face and whispered: you're so revoltingly fat you disgusting baboon.
scrunch up your face/eyes
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They scrunch up their faces, peering into the haze.
show your face
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It was a dangerous place for a non-Italian to show his face.
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At this palace, as at the other, servility shows its face and performs its tricks.
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How's he gon na show his face?
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Not a weed dared to show its face.
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Old Harker never shows his face.
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She couldn't understand how he dared to show his face after what he had done to Mr Potter.
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So you must show your face at their door, bloody and bloodthirsty and raving.
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Then one by one the other four women find a reason to show their faces.
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Wherever I showed my face, a thousand other faces immediately collected around it.
shut your mouth/face/trap!
slam the door in sb's face
straight face
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Despite the problem of trying to maintain a straight face, there are distinct advantages to being on Cube's team.
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For the first hundred yards we keep straight faces.
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How can you say that and keep a straight face?
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I try and keep a straight face, but I can't help grinning at myself.
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It was very difficult to keep a straight face.
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Kemp is straining to maintain a straight face.
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The old trick of keeping a straight face was failing him these days.
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We start with safe conversation and straight faces.
take sth at face value
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The newspapers have taken this propaganda at face value, without questioning it.
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And he no longer took things at face value.
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Because Kate, for all her faults real and imagined, was the only person ever to take him at face value.
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But now, a hundred years on, certain factions persist in taking it at face value.
the colour/blood drains from sb's face/cheeks
the set of sb's face/jaw/shoulders etc
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He hated the set of different faces glaring up at him night after night.
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Her husband's brow furrowed as he noted the set of her face.
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Something in the set of his shoulders suggested that his pursuers were not far behind.
throw sth (back) in sb's face
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It was no fun having my own words thrown back at me by my kids.
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A lot of their love would be rebuffed or thrown back in their faces.
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My love - my name thrown back in my face.
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Nobody was throwing anything in their faces.
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This would be thrown back in his face later by North Koreaand sooner than anyone guessed.
upside the head/face etc
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He needed a slap upside the head.
wipe sth off the face of the earth/wipe sth off the map
wipe the smile/grin off sb's face
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I'd like to wipe that stupid grin off your face.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I could see the children's happy faces.
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Jodi has such a pretty face .
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One of the faces of the cube has a line across it.
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One of the victims had scratches all over his face .
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The cliff face was starting to crumble into the sea.
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There were many unsuccessful attempts to climb the North Face of Mount Everest.
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We climbed the north face of Mount Rainier.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Breeze looked up, meaning to expostulate, but was silenced by what she saw in her sister's face .
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His face was a mask, friendly, but in an impersonal way.
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His face was like wax and his eyes stared like a doll's.
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I kissed her face , which was moist and feverish.
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I want to see dozens and dozens of strange faces.
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It's weird, but when she's asleep she looks real young, even though her face is all puffy.
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She is one of the many faces of poverty; she is one of the many faces of the welfare system.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
challenge
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If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
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However, the biggest challenge we face today is a willingness by some in the entertainment industry to produce whatever sells.
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We are all out of date in relation to the challenges that we face in our work. 2.
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The challenge they faced was more complex.
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The challenge facing large organizations of all types is to reduce the time among these three stages.
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But the biggest challenge many entrepreneurs face is the temptation to go off-track.
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Breaking out of that isolation may be one of the greatest challenges now facing our imagination.
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There is a challenge facing the church.
charge
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Former justice minister Tzahi Hanegbi faces indictment on corruption charges .
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He now faces charges of having abused his power while in office.
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Car drivers are likely to find themselves facing a daily charge of £5 to enter the capital from late next year.
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Flynn will not face criminal charges in the case, the sources said.
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He may now face the criminal charge of assault.
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The younger boy faces a similar charge in the juvenile criminal justice system.
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But properties in bands C-H would face higher charges .
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He faces charges stemming from accusations made by several trainees.
choice
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The judge's decision can not be over-turned, and it leaves Exxon facing some unappealing choices .
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Even knowledgeable thrift presidents felt they faced a choice be-tween rape and slow suicide.
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Leapor is faced with a choice between her job and her poetry.
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He also faces a choice of methods.
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This often applies where a patient is faced by alternative choices .
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Anyone concerned with selecting a class book for teaching a language will face a wide choice of texts.
competition
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The offer will face scrutiny under competition rules.
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As the new version of Navigator goes on sale Friday, Netscape is facing the toughest competition of its young life.
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But there's one area where she faces no competition .
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The planned deregulation has bred concern that Petron will face stiffer competition and an erosion of its 42 percent market share.
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Will those relying on the home market, particularly in the public sector, be ready to face the new competition ?
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The company was facing stiff competition and losing market share.
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Most sectors face aggressive competition , rapidly changing customer needs and fashions, and further technical change.
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The company will face stiff competition from financial service and technology companies in the growing field of electronic commerce.
consequence
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But he claimed they were well aware they were breaking the law and were prepared to face the consequences .
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They are facing the consequences of having allowed, and encouraged, the entry of a new class of member.
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Otherwise Congress would have to face the consequences of automatic across-the-board cuts under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget deficit reduction law.
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This was her final act of spite, to take the piece and leave Paige to face the consequences .
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He would have to face the consequences of his actions.
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Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he couldn't face the consequences of his gambling?
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As far as sin is concerned, we must bin it or face the consequences .
country
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Campaigners argue that poor countries faced with a health emergency have a right under international trade legislation to buy generic drugs.
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The country faces a pivotal presidential election in June in which the choice is quite simply to go forward or regress.
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Other Western countries face the same problem of natural monopoly in these industries.
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Other countries have had to face up to that problem.
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The country must face this epidemic as a unified society.
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This country faces an enormous crisis which stretches wider and deeper than the recession.
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Since all countries will face the same implicit prices, differences in relative production can be predicted from factor endowments.
crisis
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The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle.
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Bob Dole faced a crisis in 1972.
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The Third World faces an energy crisis even without the problems posed by global warming.
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This country faces an enormous crisis which stretches wider and deeper than the recession.
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Social Security is not facing a crisis .
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And just as well, because yesterday's press was perhaps the worst a prime minister has faced since the Suez crisis .
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Some opponents of the tax cut also argue that California faces a long-term budget crisis .
danger
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The Safety Centre features full size mock-ups of nearly every danger a child could face including house fires and high speed trains.
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The women there said Tuesday they acknowledge the danger they face every day.
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The outrage eagerly orchestrated by the newspaper did not focus in a serious way on the needs and dangers facing rape survivors.
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Embark on a journey through time, reliving the dangers and excitement that faced smugglers in times past.
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The trouble is they've never had to face anything like the dangers you face.
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Mourning also helps us to see the dangers facing our planet.
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The only financial bonus for the dangers they face is an environmental allowance of £1.14p a day.
difficulty
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What this discussion reveals is the difficulty that the consumer faces in making a rational decision when it comes to sport.
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The novels of Charles Dickens contain moving descriptions of the terrible difficulties people faced during this time.
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These were somewhat unrealistic proposals in the light of the existing staffing and resource difficulties already facing the mental health service.
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Irwin compared Davis' experiences on parole to his own studies into the difficulties that convicts face when they are freed.
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Some of the main difficulties faced by new care assistants are discussed below.
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The difficulty faced by Bovis was that Braehead had various cross claims.
dilemma
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This was the dilemma facing the producers of the film Apollo 13.
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Think, for example, of the dilemma that Dave faced when he replaced George at the low-performing brokerage.
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The following user describes the dilemma that faced his parents: Well, she was devastated and me dad.
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This is the dilemma she faces .
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It is also typical of the dilemma facing the new regime.
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What Clinton did with the veterans' budget illustrates the dilemma the White House faces with many politically sensitive constituencies.
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They bring into focus the dilemmas facing anthropologists who do research in their home territory.
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Finally, conflict highlights a painful dilemma facing managers who chair meetings.
fact
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She had to face the fact that she still missed him.
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It was anguishing to face the fact that, all other options tried, reconciliation still did not occur.
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If you are facing the facts in your relationship or that of some one close to you, be encouraged.
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He was very soon to be forced to face the fact that things had moved on since 1939.
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Thus, those who are committed to caring for and working with old people have first to face two facts .
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To some, killing is a way of life, whether you want to face that fact or not.
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He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
future
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But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight, angry pensioners were facing a bleak future .
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Kevin Smith, still recuperating from a ruptured Achilles' tendon, faces a future very much in doubt.
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His marriage has broken up, he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future .
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Lefors, founded in 1900 as the Gray County seat, long has faced an uncertain future .
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They also warn that some leading hospitals may face an uncertain future if they lose patients to outside bidders.
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Exports to the United States faced an uncertain future because of the rise in costs.
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Not only is he facing an uncertain future , he is being forced to behave in an uncharacteristic fashion every day.
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As we consider the dream of Jacob we find a man who stood alone and facing an uncertain future .
issue
▪
The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle.
▪
The Republican senator established the task force to help build consensus and draft legislation on issues facing rural areas of the state.
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As with so many of the environmental issues that face us now, every little helps.
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Relocation is one of the big issues facing the San Francisco Housing Authority.
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That is ultimately the issue facing Britain.
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The teaching checklist 3 in the Appendix epitomizes some of the issues he faces .
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This Summit meeting was supposed to solve critical issues facing the Lakers and Houston Rockets.
music
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Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora.
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Now she can face the music .
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We gently persuaded them to do the right thing and come back to face the music .
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It was hard to believe that it was almost time to face the music .
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I had to face the music , I had to face myself.
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Read in studio Still to come on Central News, facing the music .
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It was not just Diana who had to face the music but her parents as well.
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They can't tell us how to live and not face the music when their own conduct is questioned.
opposition
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Voice over However that party is facing strong opposition from people living in nearby Wavenden.
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But they face opposition from a lobbying powerhouse of credit card companies, banks, auto companies and retail chains.
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Despite appearances, it does not face popular opposition to reform itself.
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That bill, approved Wednesday afternoon on a 64-32 vote, still faces significant opposition in the House and from President Clinton.
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Union leaders warned that the group's attempt to cut jobs could face stiff opposition .
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Gramm faces token opposition in the Republican primary scheduled for March 12.
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The Government faces opposition from its backbenches on the question of quality.
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The reforms will have to be passed by the national conference where they will face considerable opposition .
pressure
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As the most expensive section of the labour force, middle-aged workers have faced very severe pressures to terminate their employment.
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But it was clear he would face mounting pressure to intervene from not only congressional leaders but travelers.
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Many fishermen have done well in recent years but they now face great pressure on the fish stocks.
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And I knew it was a diversity facing pressures of unprecedented scale.
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Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.
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Hospitals industrywide have been facing pressures from insurers to cut costs amid declining patient stays.
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State-owned enterprises are believed to face pressures to select profit-reducing choices where, for example, price rises are politically sensitive.
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He faces mounting public pressure to resign.
problem
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We now have another citizens charter that addresses the direct problems faced by the people of this country.
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That attitude is the biggest problem facing the government agency responsible for ferreting out discrimination.
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She also had been able to put her feelings on hold as she concentrated on the problems facing her.
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Censorship is hardly the worst problem facing Hong Kong filmmakers.
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But there were many problems to be faced .
▪
Perhaps another way to under-stand the problem we face is to take a simple example.
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One of the problems they face , however, is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period.
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Two other big problems facing the organisers are crowd and traffic control.
prospect
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Britain faced the prospect of a winter without food and without energy, at the mercy of powerful unions and ineffective employers.
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But now they face eviction and the prospect of unemployment.
▪
Some face the prospect of living on the margins for years because of U.S. visa limits and backlogs.
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If the Bill is outvoted, we are faced with dire prospects .
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But I could not face the prospect of this task.
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With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county, many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television.
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Pleasant though he was, Amelie couldn't face the prospect of making small talk with him and Madame.
question
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Four cabinet members were facing questions last night about their part in the fiasco.
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He faced questions from 17 organisations all keen to exploit, inconsistencies in the department's published evidence.
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Instead of a warm and fuzzy public relations tour during campaign season, she now faces endless questions about supposed hanky-panky.
▪
As we face the issues and questions which are before each of us now, do we know why we believe?
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McInerney faces these questions through Patrick, who is the most recent of a line of self-deprecating McInerney narrators.
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Ultimately, politicians will have to face the questions raised and deal with them.
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However, we are then faced with the question of what we are to understand by autonomy.
sea
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It seemed as if she was facing a sea of glittering gowns.
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The other side faced the open sea .
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Brighton Marina, luxury 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartments facing sea and boats.
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She pointed him to a bridge table set up to face the sea .
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She faced out to sea and saw nothing but the impression of Fernando's tortured features before her misty eyes.
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He turned to face the sea .
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One stands naked facing front with her arms raised around her head which turns to face the sea .
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Sepulchers face the sea , as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.
situation
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Mr Davies, in his letter to staff, says the council is facing a serious financial situation .
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When faced with similar situations in the future, why not give yourself prior warning by asking the following question?
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Years of army training had taught him to be cautious when faced with an unknown situation .
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None of these young States faced a simple situation .
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A distillery that wanted to launch a new brand of whisky would face this situation .
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Like all sheep farmers, Peter Capener in Staffordshire faced this situation ... until he installed two 3W infra-red heaters.
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When faced with a certain situation in wartime, they simply called on extraordinary resources.
task
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It is difficult to remember the scale of the task facing us then.
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But they illustrate the second key task facing public schools: how to increase the academic content and standards for all students.
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That is the task facing us.
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Grappling with the many varied problems of the nineteenth century, it tackled innumerable tasks and faced innumerable obstacles.
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That's the biggest and most urgent task facing the restorers, a company from Hay on Wye.
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He radiated quiet enthusiasm about the task facing him on any large steel-framed building.
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But ensuring it does is one of the most important tasks facing Mr Major in the aftermath of his election victory.
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One of the tasks facing all freshmen is to figure out ways to counter this loneliness.
threat
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Whalers face the threat of government reprisals should they start a commercial hunt which has been banned since 1985.
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We face no imminent threat , but we do have an enemy.
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They themselves face the threat of social unrest over the coming factory closures.
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Its cold-blooded use by cops facing no threat to themselves is plainly inhumane.
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Never before were they faced with the threat of losing substantial numbers of accounts.
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Augustine says some of those patients may be facing collection agency threats .
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The 45 grammar schools among them face the additional threat of comprehensive reorganisation, or closure.
truth
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If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve.
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It was a thing of a different sort to face the truth .
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Humane destruction is not easy to face , but fear of the unknown is often far worse than facing the truth .
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Sometimes folks have to face ugly, nasty truths about themselves.
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Suddenly, she felt lighter of heart, ready to face the truth she had long denied herself.
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The long incubation period means that no Third World country has yet faced the full truth of what is to come.
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In his view Fraser had delayed because he didn't want to face the truth .
■ VERB
stand
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She then stood sombrely facing the memorial while the regimental band played Land of My Fathers.
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He stood , facing me on the bed.
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As we consider the dream of Jacob we find a man who stood alone and facing an uncertain future.
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Primo and the man stand facing the crowd.
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They stood facing each other for a moment in silence.
▪
He stood facing the wall where the lizard stains were, rubbing the back of his neck.
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Now it was lit luridly in green and the puppet in the white ballet dress was standing upright facing them.
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I got up and came into the room and we stood facing each other.
turn
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She turned to face the shop window.
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He was on the trail of a stag, which turned to face him.
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It can not move and shoot in the same turn , except that it can be turned to face its intended target.
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But then I turned back, facing the road before us.
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He turned to face the ocean.
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It is sad that he could not have been turned soas to face his favourite church.
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They turned to face us, and the sight of them did nothing for our confidence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(have) egg on your face
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If we think they are easy meat we will end up with egg on our faces.
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Meanwhile, Hutcheson observed that in 1995 all the chip forecasters had varying degrees of egg on their face.
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People like me, who believed the firing squad had been assembled, were left with egg on our faces.
a face like thunder
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She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder .
a slap in the face
▪
Gwynn considered the salary they were offering a slap in the face.
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And make no mistake: He considers the Padres' offer a slap in the face -- even mimicking such a blow.
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Barnes's decision therefore came as somewhat of a slap in the face to these well rehearsed points.
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But choosing that particular moment to do it was a rebuff as callous and shocking as a slap in the face.
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It is a slap in the face and an insult.
argue/talk etc till you're blue in the face
capitalism/communism/socialism etc with a human face
fall flat on your/sth's face
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She fell flat on her face getting out of the car.
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The last time I wore high-heeled shoes I fell flat on my face outside a restaurant.
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As we were going out to the car Babe slipped and fell flat on her face.
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At last, after several near misses, I fall flat on my face.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
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But once the ball tips, the game falls flat on its face faster than a top-ranked team after a first-round upset.
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It is also a nation waiting for her to fall flat on her face.
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Writers strive for a universal experience distilled from personal memories and tend to fall flat on their faces.
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Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
horsey face/smell etc
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They gave off a pungent, horsey smell, as if freshly cut.
long face
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A long face, hangdog, sad-sack, and dusty hair, reddish brown.
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Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow, and make a long face, or only metaphorically?
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He was in his early thirties with dark skin and a long face from which protruded a sharp, aquiline nose.
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His long face, punctuated by a pencil mustache, is a place of jowls, creases and inflammation.
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His eyes were wide-set, and his long face was fair-skinned: seen from certain angles it had an almost feminine prettiness.
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Never-ending telly, Mum's long face, and a turkey dinner that nobody wanted to eat, not even Henry.
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Their faces slipped through her mind, round faces and long faces, thin, fat, smiling, sombre.
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Worst of all, his long face was more contorted than ever in the fury of self-pity.
mobile mouth/face/features
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He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
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I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
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They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
not just a pretty face
purple with rage/purple in the face etc
put a human face on sth
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What he fails to do is to put a human face on these processes.
put on a brave face/front
▪
He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.
▪
I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.
▪
Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.
▪
Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.
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Newspaper staff put on a brave face.
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No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.
▪
Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
straight face
▪
Despite the problem of trying to maintain a straight face, there are distinct advantages to being on Cube's team.
▪
For the first hundred yards we keep straight faces.
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How can you say that and keep a straight face?
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I try and keep a straight face, but I can't help grinning at myself.
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It was very difficult to keep a straight face.
▪
Kemp is straining to maintain a straight face.
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The old trick of keeping a straight face was failing him these days.
▪
We start with safe conversation and straight faces.
take sth at face value
▪
The newspapers have taken this propaganda at face value, without questioning it.
▪
And he no longer took things at face value.
▪
Because Kate, for all her faults real and imagined, was the only person ever to take him at face value.
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But now, a hundred years on, certain factions persist in taking it at face value.
the set of sb's face/jaw/shoulders etc
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He hated the set of different faces glaring up at him night after night.
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Her husband's brow furrowed as he noted the set of her face.
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Something in the set of his shoulders suggested that his pursuers were not far behind.
upside the head/face etc
▪
He needed a slap upside the head.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Courtney's apartment faces the harbour.
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Dean turned to face me.
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He was faced with the task of breaking the bad news to the boy's relatives.
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If found guilty, Jones could face up to 20 years in jail.
▪
Latin America faces a growing debt problem.
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McManus knew he was facing the biggest challenge of his career.
▪
My house faces the bay.
▪
The Jets face the Dolphins in two weeks.
▪
The new administration faces the difficult task of rebuilding the country's economy.
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The seat facing mine was empty.
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They stood facing each other for a few minutes.
▪
This report highlights some of the problems faced by learners of English.
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Today's violence highlights the problems faced by the government here.
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UCLA will face North Carolina tonight at Pauley Pavilion.
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Weber is facing the biggest challenge of his career.
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You're going to have to face her sooner or later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As at all his power stations, Scott faced the building in a fine Worcestershire brick that has weathered to a lovely pinky-brown.
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Bedworth, now 19, is facing charges under the Computer Misuse Act, 1990.
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Caught in a green translucent wave were two tiny sea-horses facing in opposite directions, one frolicking, the other melancholy.
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Hughes was the second prominent researcher at Georgetown to face problems because of reproductive research.
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She stood straight as a wand, facing us.
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The crying continued after that, and continues, but now with other parents who face the same kinds of problems.
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They served notice that conservative nominees face delay or worse.
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We had to sit with our backs to the wall, facing the door.