Facet Phrases

Phrases

• A face as long as a fiddle
• A face like a Greek god
• A great face for radio
• About face
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Angel face
• Arse about face
• As plain as the nose on your face
• At face value
• Attention to detail
• Baby face
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Blue in the face
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Butter Face
• Chew face
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't get a face on
• Eat face
• Egg on your face
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Face down
• Face facts
• Face fungus
• Face in the crowd
• Face lift
• Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
• Face like a fiddle
• Face like an unmade bed
• Face like the back of a bus
• Face like thunder
• Face off
• Face palm moment
• Face recognition)
• Face that could stop a clock
• Face that only a mother could love
• Face the competition
• Face the music
• Face the truth
• Face time
• Face your maker
• Fall flat on your face
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Frog face
• Get out of my face

• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Her face lit up
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face (Carl's Jr advertising slogan)
• If your face fits
• In your element
• In your face
• It's written all over your face
• Keep a straight face
• Kick sand in his face
• Laugh in your face
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Let's face it
• Let's face the music and dance
• Long face
• Lose face
• Mace your face
• Make a face
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Not just a pretty face
• Off your face
• On the face of it
• On the face of the earth
• Pizza face
• Play kissy face
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)
• Poker face
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Pull a face
• Put a brave face on
• Put your game face on
• Save face
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Set your face against something
• Shut your face
• Slap in the face
• Stuff your face
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Devil is in the detail
• The Face (Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict))
• The answer is staring you in the face
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The unacceptable face of capitalism
• Throw it back in your face
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• Wipe the smile off your face
• Wipe your face