show one's face

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show one's face (third-person singular simple present shows one's face, present participle showing one's face, simple past showed one's face, past participle shown one's face or (US also) showed one's face)

  1. (informal) To appear publicly.
    • 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood [], New York, N.Y.: [] Charles Scribner’s Sons [], →OCLC:
      But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

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