rearrange (one's) face

rearrange (one's) face

1. To change one's facial expression, especially to hide a negative feeling or reaction. Hearing the news filled me with shock and despair, so I took a moment to rearrange my face before returning to the table.
2. To badly damage or mutilate one's face by violently attacking it. He threatened to rearrange my face if I didn't give him everything in my pockets. He's a towering bulk of man who could rearrange your face with a single punch.
See also: face, rearrange
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rearrange someone's face

injure or mutilate someone's face by hitting it. informal
See also: face, rearrange
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See also:
  • rearrange someone's face
  • (one's) face is a picture
  • be written all over (one's) face
  • be written all over somebody's face
  • be written all over your face
  • written in (one's) face
  • written all over (one's) face
  • written all over your face
  • it's written all over (one's) face
  • It's written all over face