10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STARE ONE IN THE FACE»
Discover the use of
stare one in the face in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stare one in the face and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Stare one in the face (a) Look fixedly at a person (b) Right in front of one (a) To
stare at one in a public place is not good manners unless you happen to know
that person. (b) The article I was searching for was staring at me in the face but I
did ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
In 6 Volumes
To forbear from, or evade, shaming him or oneself openly ; 5jt 3^1 ^31 , To set
one's face against- To oppose ; ^Hl C?«51, af5C5tt ^31 i To show one's face— To
appear; 35 CffH, ®»tf^5 5«51 I To stare one in the face— To be before one's eyes
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(be disclosed) 529; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its
head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale &c. (intelligible) 518
. Adj. manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the ...
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Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, ...
... length of a face- To FACE, I «o stare one in the face, a to cover the sleeves of a
garment. 3 to look, or set one's face towards. FACETIOUS (of fonts, L. merry)
merry, pleasant, witty. FA'CJXE {ttfooSt, L. of foci* to do) I easy to be done. 2 easy
of ...
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
480a. be -manifest &c. adj.; appear &c. (be visible) 446; transpire &c. (be
disclosed) 529; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its
head; give -token, — sign, — indication of; tell its own tale &c. (intelligible) 518.
Adj. manifest ...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
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Glossaries Of Americanisms V
the clouds; to heave in sight; to show its colors; to tell its 'own tale; to stare one in
the face. Open as day; clear as noon'duy; plain as a pike-staff; under one's nose;
plain as the nose on one's face; staring one in the face; there beingno mistaking ...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary ...
Portraits, moreover, do stare one in the face as one moves about within a room.
They are also used as tokens of the immortality of their subjects, commanding of
their viewers symbolic “libations,” which the young Equiano “thought it might.
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary ...
Portraits, moreover, do stare one in the face as one moves about within a room.
They are also used as tokens of the immortality of their subjects, commanding of
their viewers symbolic “libations,” which the young Equiano “thought it might.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. J. T. Mitchell, 2014
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Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases to Facilitate
the ...
Phr. To break through the clouds ; to show its colours ; to tell its own tale ; to stare
one in the face ; cela saute aux yeux. Adj. Visible, perceptible, discernible, in
sight, apparent, plain, manifest, patent, obvious, char, distinct, definite, well-
defined, ...
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The Comic Genius of Dr. Alexander Hamilton
... the least triffling expression and common sentence in discourse, . . . would
shrug up his shoulders and stare one in the face as if [he] had uttered some very
wonderful thing" (p. 66); Dr. James McGraw, an Irishman who said surprisingly
little, ...
