confront

confront (one) with (something)

To approach one with the intention of presenting or discussing something unpleasant. If you confront him with evidence of his crime, I think he'll try to leave town.
See also: confront
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

confront someone with something

to face someone with incriminating evidence, charges of wrongdoing, or criticism. The angry husband confronted his wife with the evidence of her financial irresponsibility. The police confronted Wilson with the witness's statement.
See also: confront
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • come to a bad end
  • come to a bad/sticky end
  • have no stomach for something
  • have the stomach for
  • be tainted by (something)
  • in for
  • be in for
  • be in for something
  • have an accident
  • learn (something) the hard way
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Dunne admitted causing grievous bodily harm, saying he had gone only to confront Mr Allerton, but had seen "red mist" and picked up the piece of wood.
The purpose of the PBL approach is to allow students to reach these insights themselves, after presentation of the leader and the situation which confronted them.
Before you confront the guy or tell your friend, be sure you have the facts straight.
Canadian gay couple Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell were on their way to a civil rights conference in Georgia when the newlyweds were confronted by U.S.
Richard Danson Brown finds the ground for his interpretation of Spenser's 1591 Complaints in a concern with poetics, proposing that Spenser's use of the well-established complaint mode leads, first, to an impasse as the poet confronts the insufficiencies of both world-engaging humanist and world-denying Christian poetics, and then to a new but less reassuring representation of "the complexity of lived experience" (254).
Placed on this earth, we have been given the opportunity and responsibility to confront the world around us, both nature and other people.
Reunification and consequent rebuilding require that Berliners confront their past, decide which artifacts merit preservation and which do not.
If you do decide to confront someone, have documentation of what was said and when; talk to the person in private; and ask for the behavior for you want.
Especially vexing for the employer is the question of when, whether, and how to confront a suspected abuser.
If I am not prepared to confront those things that work against peace, then I am not a peacemaker but a cocoon-builder.
Is it an exegesis on the "intensely personal" decision to "confront rather than conform"?
This spares them having to confront what Clinton has rightly labeled the Republican war against children.
Emener does not confront the question of discrimination directly.