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rub someone's face in en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rub someone's nose in.
    • This weekend you're here to rub his face in one failure, his not securing a Beaumaris to marry one of his stepdaughters, while I rub his nose in the ultimate failure for any Beaumaris, true or not, by informing him he needs to pack his bags and get...the fuck...out. 2011, Kristen Ashley, Penmort Castle, →ISBN:
    • Jake bristled at the insinuation that he never visited his father unless he wanted something. Even if it was true, Joe didn't need to rub his face in it. 2014, Jami Davenport, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, →ISBN:
    • Leaving it out would only make Geraint think she was taunting him with it, trying to rub his face in the fact they'd found not one but two of the treasures, and instead of building bridges between them it would only serve to burn them. 2014, Alex Archer, Celtic Fire, →ISBN:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, face, in.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rubs someone's face in Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rubbing someone's face in Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rubbed someone's face in Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rubbed someone's face in Tense=Past lexicographic