| 释义 |
downface, v.
[down adv.]
trans. To contradict, controvert; to browbeat; to out-smart; = to face down (see face v. 3 a). (Cf. down-faced s.v. down adv. 42).
1909G. B. Shaw Press Cuttings 1 She downfaces us that youve got the key of the padlock in a letter. 1922Joyce Ulysses 323 He'd try to downface you that dying was living. 1929St. John Ervine First Mrs. Fraser iii. 78 A flabby sort of a fellow that lets himself be downfaced by adversity. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. ii. 202 Daphne's person was sexy, her conversation irreproachably chaste. She would downface any remark by saying ‘You are awful,’ or simply using her eyes. |