stare in the face

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To be extremelyvisibleandobviousto someone.Then, one night you wake up with a start at 3 o'clock in the morning with the answerstaring you in the face. Or maybe it hits you in the bath, like Archimedes, or while you're on the loo.1689(indicated as1690), [John Locke],An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.[…], London:[…]Eliz[abeth]Holt, for Thomas Basset,[…],→OCLC:,Book IThe law[…]stares them in the facewhilst they are breaking it.

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