on the face of it

Meaning

1. used to say that sth seems to be good, true, etc. but that this opinion may need to be changed when you know more about it

   On the face of it, it seems like a great deal.

In the movies · 1

• - Those. Them. - It's absurd on the face of it.His Girl Friday1940
• step out and walk on the face of it.Apollo 131995
• Face to faceAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023
• In the face! In the face!The Hangover2009
• Face to face.World War Z2013
• Making friends face-to-face?Ron's Gone Wrong2021
• In the faceFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019
• There's no face. This is my face, that's all.Mulan II2004

Learn it in full scenes

• His Girl Friday1940
  • Hildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
  • Hildy Quits the Post
  • Walter Meets Bruce Baldwin

From the same entry

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

More idioms

• pat on the back
• take into consideration
• be on a roll
• nothing of the kind
• under pressure
• close by
• out of your hands
• that's that
• every penny
• in black and white
• have to hand it to
• with your bare hands