come face to face with (something)

to see or experience a problem for the first time.

It was only after I started working for the charity that I came face to face with poverty.

• sit in judgment of someone
• sit in judgment of something
• sit in judgment on
• sit in judgment on someone
• sit in judgment over
• sit in judgment over someone
• sit in on
• sit in on something
• I'm not made of money!
• I must love you and leave you.
• in a bad way
• in a bind
• in absentia
• in a class by
• in a class by itself
• in a cleft stick
• in a cold sweat
• in action
• in advance
• in advance of
• in advance of something
• in a flash
• in a fog
• in a good light
• in a huff