face:
The front of the head including the chin, mouth , nose, cheeks , eyes , and forehead.SYNONYMS: beezer ; biscuit ; clock ; dial-plate ; dish ; esaff ; facha ; fatcha ; fizz ; front piece ; frontage ; frontispiece ; kisser ; map; mask; mug ; mush ; pan ; phiz ; phizz; phyz ; physog ; physiognomy; ponum ; portrait ; puss ; signboard; smiler ; snoot .
RHYMING SLANG: airs-and-graces ; boat-race cherry-ace ; chevy-chase ; chip-and-chase ; deuce-and-ace ; glass-case ; Jem-Mace ; roach-and-dace .
BLAND/EXPRESSIONLESS FACE: blah-face(d); chitty-faced ; dead-pan ; fish-face ; frigid-map ; frozen-face ; moon-face ; pieface ; poker-face .
UGLY FACE: bracket-face ; clock-stopper ; crater-face ; cribbage-face ; dogface ; doggie ; physic-face ; pizza-face .
Quotes:
(1) Rudy Adams (Jean Harlow) to Gypsy (Dorothy Burgess) in Hold Your Man (1933): ' You know , you wouldn't be a bad looking dame ... if it wasn't for your face .'
(2) Tira (Mae West) in I'm No Angel (1933): ' It's my fortune. When I was born with this face, it was the same as striking oil .'
(3) An admirer and Cleo Borden (Mae West) in Goin' to Town (1935):
-- Admirer: 'Where have I seen your face before? '
-- Cleo Borden: ' Same place you see it now .'
(4) S. Quentin Quale (Groucho Marx) and Joe Panello (Chico Marx) in Go West (1940):-- Quentin Quale: ' Where did I see your face before? '-- Joe Panello: ' Right where it is now .'
(5) Isabel Ducotel (Gloria Talbot) and Albert (Aldo Ray) in We're No Angels (1955):-- Isabel: ' You don't look like a criminal .'-- Albert: ' If crime showed in a man's face, there wouldn't be any mirrors .'
(6) Diana Barrie (Maggie Smith) to Sydney Cochran (Michael Caine) in California Suite (1978): ' I've aged , Sidney. I'm getting lines in my face. I look like a brand new steel-belted radial tire .'
(7) Lou Peckingpaugh (Peter Falk) and Marlene Duchard (Louise Fletcher) in a Casablanca-like scene in The Cheap Detective (1978):-- Lou: ' I almost forgot what you look like. Day by day I erased your face from my mind, little by little, till all I had left was your right ear and three front teeth on the bottom .'-- Marlene: ' I still carry your picture in a locket. Naturally I had to cut off your head in case Paul found it .'
(8) Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) in The Mirror Crack'd (1980):-- Marina: ' Lola, darling , you know there are only two things I dislike about you .'-- Lola: ' Really? What are they? '-- Marina: ' Your face .'
(9) Toby (Joan Hacket) and Georgia (Marsha Mason) in Only When I Laugh (1981): ' Nothing in life happens without warning. It falls apart, day by day, bit by bit . Like your face in the mirror .'
(10) Vicky Vale (Kim Basinger) and The Joker/Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) in Batman (1989):-- Vicky Lane: ' What do you want? '-- The Joker: ' My face on the one-dollar bill .'
(11) Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) to Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts) in Steel Magnolias (1989): ' Honey! Time marches on and eventually you realise it's marching across your face .'
(12) Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) to Ramada (Valeria Golino) in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993): ' I do love you. I tried to forget you but no matter what I do , your face is always on the tip of my tongue .'
(13) Roland T. Flakfizer (John Torturo) and Jacques (Bob Nelson) in Brain Donors (1992):-- Roland: ' The face is familiar .'-- Jacques: ' It's mine! '
(14) Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) to Felicia in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994): ' There are two things I don't like about you... your face. So how about shutting both of 'em .'
(15) Messenger 7013 (Edward Everett Horton) watching scheming Kitty Pendleton (Rita Hayworth) in Down to Earth (1947): ' Females! One head but two faces .'
(16) P.I. Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) speaking of Ann Grayle (Anne Shirley) in Murder, My Sweet (1945): ' Not a beautiful face but a good face. She had a face like a Sunday school picnic .'
(17) Jess Burgess (Leo Gordon) in Gun Fury (1953): ' As far as I'm concerned all women are alike. They just have different faces so you can tell them apart .'
(18) Adam Cook (Oscar Levant) facing the camera in An American in Paris (1951): ' It's not a pretty face, I grant you, but underneath it's flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character .'
(19) Chili Pepper (Woody Harrelson) to bouncer Chango/Stubby (Luis Guzman) in The Cowboy Way (1994): ' Speak English? Sabe English? Why that's too bad because I was gonna tell you your face looks like a hat full of assholes .'
Synonyms: bit-of-beef, a-bit-of-bouncy-bouncy, a bit of business, a bit of bum-dancing, a-bit-of-butt, a-bit-of-cauliflower, a bit of cock-fighting, a-bit-of-crumpet, a-bit-of-cuddle, a bit of cunt, a bit of curly greens, a-bit-of-fat, a bit of fish, a-bit-of-flat, a-bit-of-fork, a-bit-of-front-door-work, a-bit-of-fun, a-bit-of-hair, a-bit-of-how's-yer-father, a-bit-of-it, a-bit-of-nifty, a-bit-of-nobble, a-bit-of-nookey, a-bit-of-pork, a bit of quimsy, a-bit-of-raspberry, a-bit-of-rough, a-bit-of-rumpty-tumpty, a-bit-of-rumpy-bumpy, a-bit-of-rumpy-pumpy, a-bit-of-snug, a-bit-of-the-other, a-bit-of-skin, a-bit-of-snug-for-a-bit-of-stiff, a-bit-of-stiff, a-bit-of-the-old-in-and-out, a bit on a / the fork, a-dash-up-the-channel, a-knee-trembler, a little game of hide-the-sausage, a-little-o-the-one-with-tother, a-little-one-on-one, a piece of crumpet, a-poke-in-the-whiskers, a-poke-through-the-whiskers, a-spot-of-Cupids-archery, a spot hard breathing, a-squeeze-and-a-squirt, accommodate, act, the, act-of-androgynation, act-of-darkness, act-of-generation, act-of-kind, act-of-love, act-of-pleasure, act-of-shame, act-of-sport, Adam-and-Eve-it, adamize, afternoon-delight, all-the-way, all there but the most of you, amorous-congress, amorous-rites, ashes-hauled, assault-with-a-friendly-weapon, at-it, baby-making-love, bag, bag-up, bag-of-coke, bait-the-hook, balaclava, ball, balling, balling-the-jack, balls-eye, baloney-hop, baloney ride, bam-bam, banana, bananas-and-cream, bandicooting, bang, bang-away, bang-like-a-shithouse-door-(in-a-gale), bang like a shithouse door (in the wind), banging, banging away, Barrer-Moke, bash-leather, basket-making, bat-up, bawdy-banquet, bayonet-drill, BBQ'N, be-intimate-with, be-with-a-woman, beanfeast
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