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Idiom

break someone's face

Meaning

To beat up someone violently.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He threatened to break my face if I came back.”

“The angry man shouted that he would break the face of anyone who touched his car.”

“The criminal warned his rival that if he continued to interfere with the business, he would break his face without hesitation.”

Examples

simple

“He threatened to break my face if I came back.”

contextual

“The angry man shouted that he would break the face of anyone who touched his car.”

complex

“The criminal warned his rival that if he continued to interfere with the business, he would break his face without hesitation.”

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