| 单词 | to get in a person's face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (also be) (up) in a person's face (b) to get (also be) (up) in a person's face: to provoke or confront a person. ΚΠ ?1930 in P. Oliver Songsters & Saints (1984) iv. 121 The rabbit and the terrapin has a race, The terrapin put it in the rabbit's face.] 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 106 He got in my face just as I stepped into the lobby from the elevator at union headquarters. 1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee 201 Brought him along because I suspicioned some piker like you was going to get up in my face. 1953 W. Fisher Waiters vi. 125 Not for nothing..was Asher forever ‘in the Kingfish's face’. 1990 San Francisco Chron. 17 Oct. d7/6 We've got to get in their face more. We've got to make more plays—more tipped balls, more interceptions. 1992 T. Davis 1959 (1993) 226 And he still hasn't gotten up in my face to tell me to go to hell yet. 2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater iii. 17 In those last three weeks alone, two of my boaws from down South Philly were in my face trying to get me to hustle. < as lemmas |
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