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Debpriya De Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

In face

The guards spat on the soldiers.
The guards spat in his face.
Why do we use the preposition "in" with "face" ?
  

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Hi, It's idiomatic. We say it that way because we like to say it that way. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, It's idiomatic.
  • We say it that way because we like to say it that way.
  • Clive
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Hi,

It's idiomatic. We say it that way because we like to say it that way.
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Prepositions are not always subject to the rules of logic. Emotion: wink
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We also use the expression "in your face" to suggest that something you'd rather not be aware of is intruding into your private space. Your face is your window to the world, literally and figuratively.

We also say, "I saw him in the/my window" more often than "I saw him at the window."
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There is no really easy way to guess which preposition goes with which part of the body after "a verb of violent contact".

See .

CJ
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