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FACE

A mnemonic used in music to remember the notes on the spaces of the treble clef (F, A, C, and E), in order from lowest to highest. (Often used in conjunction with "Every Good Boy Does Fine" or similar, a mnemonic for the notes on the lines of the treble clef.) If you're having trouble remembering the notes during the quiz, just think of your FACE and remember that Every Good Boy Does Fine!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See:
  • (as) plain as the nose on (one's) face
  • (Boy,) is my face red!
  • (one's) face doesn't fit
  • (one's) face fits
  • (one's) face is a picture
  • (one's) face is like thunder
  • a bag-of-spanners face
  • a face (that) only a mother could love
  • a face as long as a fiddle
  • a face like a bag of spanners
  • a face like a cat's arse
  • a face like thunder
  • a kick in the face
  • a long face
  • a long face, to wear/draw/pull
  • a man without a smiling face must not open a shop
  • a red face
  • a slap in the face
  • a smack in the face
  • a straight face
  • a volte-face
  • about face, to do an
  • about-face
  • all over (one's) face
  • an about-face
  • at face value
  • at face value, take
  • at the chalkface
  • at the coalface
  • bacon-faced
  • Bag it!
  • bag your face
  • Bag your face!
  • bald-faced liar
  • bald-faced lie
  • barefaced liar
  • barefaced lie
  • barefaced lie/liar
  • be as plain as the nose on (one's) face
  • be in (one's) face
  • be in your face
  • be just a pretty face
  • be just another pretty face
  • be laughing on the other side of (one's) face
  • be laughing on the other side of your face
  • be looking (one) in the face
  • be not just a pretty face
  • be not just another pretty face
  • be out of (one's) face
  • be red in the face
  • be staring (one) in the face
  • be staring (something) in the face
  • be staring someone in the face
  • be staring something in the face
  • be taken at face value
  • be written all over (one's) face
  • be written all over somebody's face
  • be written all over your face
  • big face
  • bite (one's) nose off to spite (one's) face
  • bite off (one's) nose to spite (one's) face
  • blank look on (one's) face
  • blow up
  • blow up in (one's) face
  • blow up in face
  • blow up in somebody's face
  • blow up in your face
  • blue in the face
  • blue in the face, to be/until one is
  • bold-faced liar
  • bold-faced lie
  • brave face, put on a
  • butter face
  • butterface
  • butt-face
  • can't see (one's) hand in front of (one's) face
  • can't see hand in front of face
  • chew face
  • come face to face with (someone or something)
  • come face to face with someone
  • come face to face with something
  • crater face
  • crater-face
  • cut (one's) nose off to spite (one's) face
  • cut nose off to spite face
  • cut off (one's) nose to spite (one's) face
  • cut off nose to spite face
  • cut off one's nose to spite one's face
  • cut off one's nose to spite one's face, to
  • cut off your nose to spite your face
  • disappear off the face of the earth
  • disappear/vanish off the face of the earth
  • do an about-face
  • do something until you are blue in the face
  • dogface
  • don't cut off your nose to spite your face
  • duck face
  • eat face
  • egg on (one's) face
  • egg on face
  • egg on one's face, have
  • egg on one's face, to have/wipe off the
  • egg on your face
  • FACE
  • face (that) would stop a clock
  • face (the) facts
  • face away
  • face card
  • face down
  • face facts
  • face falls
  • face forward
  • face fungus
  • face head-on
  • face into
  • face into (something)
  • face it
  • face man
  • face off
  • face on
  • face on(to) (something)
  • face only a mother could love
  • face out
  • face that launched a thousand ships, the
  • face the consequences
  • face the day
  • face the music
  • face the music, to
  • face time
  • face to face
  • face to face with (someone or something)
  • face up
  • face up to
  • face up to (someone or something)
  • face up/down
  • face value
  • face with
  • face with (someone or something)
  • faced
  • face-off
  • face-to-face
  • fall (flat) on (one's)/its face
  • fall flat on your face
  • fall on face
  • fall on one's face
  • feed (one's) face
  • feed face
  • feed one’s face
  • feed one's face
  • fill (one's) face
  • fill face
  • fill one’s face
  • fling (something) up in (one's) face
  • fling up in face
  • fly in the face of
  • fly in the face of (something)
  • fly in the face of something
  • fly in the face of sth
  • fly in the face of, to
  • fly into the face of danger
  • fresh-faced
  • frog face
  • from the face of the earth
  • fungus-face
  • fuzz-face
  • game face
  • get (all) up in (one's) face
  • get a red face
  • get face
  • get in (one's) face
  • get in somebody's face
  • get in someone’s face
  • get in someone's face
  • get out of (one's) face
  • get out of face
  • get out of my face
  • Get out of my face!
  • get out of one's face
  • get out of someone's face
  • give (someone) a red face
  • give (someone) face
  • give a red face
  • go soak your face
  • have a face like a wet weekend
  • have a face like thunder
  • have a long face
  • have egg on (one's) face
  • have egg on face
  • have egg on one’s face
  • have got egg on (one's) face
  • have the (brass) face to (do something)
  • have the face to
  • hide (one's) face
  • hide (one's) face in shame
  • hide face in shame
  • hide one's face
  • his, her, etc. face is like thunder
  • I'd rather face a firing squad than (do something)
  • I'd rather face a firing squad than do
  • in (one's) face
  • in face
  • in someone’s face
  • in someone's face
  • in the face
  • in the face of
  • in the face of (something)
  • in the face of something
  • in the teeth of (something)
  • in your face
  • in-your-face
  • Is my face red!
  • it's written all over (one's) face
  • It's written all over face
  • just another pretty face
  • keep a straight face
  • keep a straight face, to
  • kissy face
  • laugh in (one's) face
  • laugh in face
  • laugh in somebody's face
  • laugh in someone's face
  • laugh on the other side of (one's) face
  • laugh on the other side of your face
  • laugh out (of) the other side of (one's) face
  • laugh out (of) the other side of (one's) mouth
  • laugh out of the other side of face and laugh out of the other ...
  • laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
  • laugh out of the other side of your face/mouth, you'll/to
  • let's face (the) facts
  • let's face it
  • like the back of a bus
  • long face
  • look (one) in the eye(s)
  • look (one) in the face
  • look in the face
  • look somebody in the eye/face
  • look someone in the face
  • look/stare you in the face
  • lose face
  • lose face, to
  • loss of face
  • mace (one's) face
  • mace someone’s face
  • make a face
  • make a face (at someone)
  • make faces
  • make faces (at someone)
  • mess (one's) face up
  • mess face up
  • mess someone’s face up
  • Monday's child is fair of face
  • my face when
  • not have the face
  • not have the face (to do something)
  • not just a pretty face
  • not show (one's) face
  • not show face
  • off (one's) face
  • off the face of the earth
  • off your face
  • on the face of it
  • on the face of the earth
  • one hand washes the other (and both wash the face)
  • out of (one's) face
  • pizza face
  • pizza-face
  • plain as day
  • plain as day/the nose on your face
  • play kissy-face
  • play kissy-face (with someone)
  • po-faced
  • poker face
  • poker face, a
  • powder (one's) face
  • powder nose
  • powder one’s face
  • powder one’s nose
  • pretty face, more than a/not just a
  • pull a face (at someone)
  • pull faces (at someone)
  • pull/make faces/a face
  • put (one's) face on
  • put a brave face on (something)
  • put a brave face on something
  • put a good face on (something)
  • put a good/bold face on something, to
  • put a smile on (one's) face
  • put a smile on face
  • put a smile on someone’s face
  • put face on
  • put on (one's) face
  • put on a brave face
  • put one's face on
  • rack face
  • rearrange (one's) face
  • rearrange someone's face
  • red in the face
  • red in the face, be
  • red-face test
  • red-faced
  • register on (one's) face
  • save (one's) face
  • save face
  • save face, to
  • save someone's face
  • say (something) to (one's) face
  • say to face
  • screw up (one's) face
  • set (one's) face against (something)
  • set in
  • set in a type face
  • set one's face against
  • set your face against
  • set your face against something
  • shoot off (one's) face
  • show (one's) face
  • show face
  • show one's face
  • show one's face, to
  • show your face
  • shut the door in (someone's) face
  • Shut your cake hole!
  • shut your face!
  • shut your mouth/trap/face/gob!
  • slam the door in (one's) face
  • slam the door in face
  • slap in the face
  • smack in the face
  • smash (one's) face in
  • smash (one's) head in
  • smash face in
  • smash in (one's) face
  • smash somebody's face/head in
  • soak face
  • soak one’s face
  • someone's face fits
  • stand (there) with (one's) bare face hanging out
  • stand there with bare face hanging out
  • stand there with one’s bare face hanging out
  • stare (someone or something) in the face
  • stare in the face
  • stare something in the face
  • straight face
  • straight-faced
  • stuff (one's) face
  • stuff face
  • stuff one’s face
  • stuff your face
  • suck face
  • take (someone or something) at face value
  • take at face value
  • take at face value, to
  • take somebody/something at face value
  • talk someone's arm off
  • talk till (one) is blue in the face
  • talk till (one's) face is blue
  • talk to the hand
  • talk until (one) is blue in the face
  • talk until (one's) face is blue
  • talk until one is blue in the face
  • tell (one) to (one's) face
  • tell one to face
  • the acceptable face of
  • the acceptable face of (something)
  • the acceptable face of something
  • throw (something) back in (one's) face
  • throw (something) back in(to) (one's) face
  • throw (something) in (one's) face
  • throw dust in (one's) face
  • throw in face
  • throw in someone's face
  • throw something back in someone's face
  • till (one) is blue in the face
  • till you're blue in the face
  • to (one's) face
  • to face
  • to one's face
  • to somebody's face
  • to someone's face
  • turd face
  • turn (one's) face to the wall
  • two-faced
  • until (one) is blue in the face
  • until you are blue in the face
  • volte-face
  • wash its face
  • what’s his face
  • what's his face
  • what's his/her face
  • what's his/her/their face
  • Why the long face?
  • wipe (someone or something) off the face of the earth
  • wipe off the face of the earth
  • wipe off the map
  • wipe something off the face of the earth
  • wipe the smile off someone's face
  • wipe the/that grin off (one's) face
  • wipe the/that smile off (one's) face
  • wipe the/that smile, grin, etc. off your/somebody's face
  • with (one's) bare face hanging out
  • with egg on (one's) face
  • with egg on your face
  • wouldn't know (something) if it hit (one) in the face
  • written all over (one's) face
  • written all over your face
  • written in (one's) face
  • your face falls
  • your/somebody's face doesn't fit
  • zit face
  • zit-face
References in classic literature
He concentrated upon that face; all else about him was a whirling void.
"I'll meet you outside, after the last act," Martin whispered, the while his face showed undivided interest in the buck-and-wing dancing on the stage.
Martin Eden
It was a happy lot for children to grow up to manhood or womanhood with the Great Stone Face before their eyes, for all the features were noble, and the expression was at once grand and sweet, as if it were the glow of a vast, warm heart, that embraced all mankind in its affections, and had room for more.
As we began with saying, a mother and her little boy sat at their cottage-door, gazing at the Great Stone Face, and talking about it.
Great Carbuncle
As I walked close by her and looked keenly into her face, she cast down her eyes and half turned away.
She was very tired and cold, --so tired she seemed hardly to have the spirit to eat, and evidently the cold had taken tight clutch of her lungs, for she had a cough that went to my heart to hear, and her face was ghastly pale.
Quest of the Golden Girl
Swathed about his forehead, and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr.
From Twice Told Tales
Suddenly we heard a yelp and a volley of furious blasphemy from the companion hatchway, and the deformed man with the black face came up hurriedly.
Island of Doctor Moreau
When he was thirteen and I was half his age the terrible news came, and I have been told the face of my mother was awful in its calmness as she set off to get between Death and her boy.
Margaret Ogilvy
"Honest, I do," he hastened to add at sight of her shocked face. "I don't mean water an' soap, but look there." His hand closed reverently but firmly on her arm.
The Game
Boris was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate features.
War and Peace
The look of surprise on the savage face was almost comical, and before Tarzan could unsling his bow the fellow had turned and fled down the path crying out in alarm as though to others before him.
Tarzan of the Apes
It is the shadow of pain which touches the young face with such pathetic patience, but Beth seldom complains and always speaks hopefully of `being better soon'.
Little Women
She could scarce wait for the coming of the day that she might look again upon the bright face of her little, black-eyed Jack.
The Beasts of Tarzan
She drew back from him with aversion, and without looking in his face answered:
Anna Karenina