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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
Phrase - get all up in someones face
Hi my EnglishForward friends,
Please what does this phrase mean? I have been looking for the definiton of this phrase for almost two hours and I didn't find the meaning....
Even if I googled out many sentences with this phrase, they didn't help me with conclusion. I found these examples:
- If we get all up in his face he's going to move, and with all the contributions he's made to this community, we certainly don't want that to happen.
(Very easy sentence except of that phrase..:-(
- I walk up to him and get all up in his face.
I just have a feeling that if I'd got all up in someones face, it means that I'm gonna say him everything about my personal feeling to him....But I'm not sure.
thank you so much.
With regards
JCD
Please what does this phrase mean? I have been looking for the definiton of this phrase for almost two hours and I didn't find the meaning....
Even if I googled out many sentences with this phrase, they didn't help me with conclusion. I found these examples:- If we get all up in his face he's going to move, and with all the contributions he's made to this community, we certainly don't want that to happen.
(Very easy sentence except of that phrase..:-(
- I walk up to him and get all up in his face.
I just have a feeling that if I'd got all up in someones face, it means that I'm gonna say him everything about my personal feeling to him....But I'm not sure.
thank you so much.
With regards
JCD
Top answer
term=in+your+face (1st and 3rd definitions, not the silly drinking game one). But "in your face" is usually shouted in triumph, in my experience. " to your opponent.
- term=in+your+face (1st and 3rd definitions, not the silly drinking game one).
- But "in your face" is usually shouted in triumph, in my experience.
- " to your opponent.
- "Get up in your face" means more to put your face literally very close to somebody else's (to invade their personal space, in other words) and speak angrily to them.
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I would roughly translate it as "confront angrily."
It might possibly be a spinoff of "in your face," see the http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in+your+face (1st and 3rd definitions, not the silly drinking game one). But "in your face" is usually shouted in triumph, in
It might possibly be a spinoff of "in your face," see the http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in+your+face (1st and 3rd definitions, not the silly drinking game one). But "in your face" is usually shouted in triumph, in
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Not EXACTLY the same meaning for the sentences you gave
If we get all up in his face he's going to move, and with all the contributions he's made to this community, we certainly don't want that to happen.
Means - If we make this a problem for him, he's going to . . . . . .
While
I walk up to him and
If we get all up in his face he's going to move, and with all the contributions he's made to this community, we certainly don't want that to happen.
Means - If we make this a problem for him, he's going to . . . . . .
While
I walk up to him and
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