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Idioms and Phrases

In addition to the idiom beginning with in the face , 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) .
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Example Sentences

Glitter bombs are just the newest iteration of the old fashioned pie-in-the-face that comes right out of the anarchist playbook.

Comedian 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.

At this point Rain-in-the-Face took up his tobacco pouch and began again to fill his pipe.

Rain-in-the-Face was killed when he put down his weapons before the Great Father.

At one time the guardhouse at the fort had a distinguished occupant, Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux warrior.

Only my friendship with the children of old Rain-in-the-Face had saved me.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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