face to face with

Meaning

1. Oxford55% of films

   close to and looking at sb

   home, then he came face-to-face with Officer Cross. You okay'?

2. Oxford45% of films

   in a situation where you have to accept that sth is true and deal with it

   If coming face-to-face with the failure that is your career ain't worth crying about,

In the movies · 11

• If coming face-to-face with the failure that is your career ain't worth crying about,Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019
• ...coming face-to-face with a grizzly bear.How the West Was Won1962
• home, then he came face-to-face with Officer Cross. You okay'?The Place Beyond the Pines2013
• For a face-to-face with the White Widow?Mission: Impossible - Fallout2018
• Marty, Lake Street will probably contact you about a face-to-face with the Cardinal.Spotlight2015
• but then face-to-face.Hillbilly Elegy2020
• Face to faceAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023
• Face to face.World War Z2013

Learn it in full scenes

• Spotlight2015
  • Baron Meets Robinson for a Drink
  • Marty Baron's First News Meeting
  • Lawyers Break Down the Geoghan Case

From the same entry

• disappear off the face of the earth
• face doesn't fit
• face is like thunder
• face up
• have the face to do
• in face
• in the face of
• lose face
• on the face of it
• pull faces face
• put your face on
• set your face against

More idioms

• shame on you
• bring under control
• a change of mind
• leave be
• way back
• go to bed with
• day by day
• learn the hard way
• jump to conclusions
• from scratch
• behind the scenes
• lend a hand