be written all over face

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be very obvious to other people from the expression on sb's face

   Well technically the It will get us there

   I thought it was written all over my face when I left Berlin in '02.

In the movies · 3

• I thought it was written all over my face when I left Berlin in '02.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
• IT'S A WAY FOR US TO ALL GET TOGETHER AND HAVE SOMEBODY FROM THE GROUP MAKE A SPEECH.Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live2015
• Well technically the It will get us thereDark Phoenix2019
• It s written all over your faceDark Phoenix2019
• YOU KNOW, WHEN SOMEBODY CRITICIZES YOU OR SAYS SOMETHING BEHIND YOUR BACK, THOSE WORDS THAT THEY SAID ABOUT YOU, IT'S LIKE YOU FEEL LIKE THOSE WORDS ARE WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE, ALL OVER YOU.Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live2015

Learn it in full scenes

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

From the same entry

• have written all over it
• nothing to write home about
• that's all she wrote
• not worth the paper it's written on
• write away
• write back
• write down
• write in
• write in
• write into
• write off
• write off

More idioms

• come along for the ride
• do your own thing
• drink like a fish
• err on the side of
• fly in the face of
• get under skin
• have eyes in the back of your head
• have your feet on the ground
• have your work cut out
• i beg to differ
• it is just as well
• keep quiet about