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词组 be staring someone in the face
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Idiom
be staring someone in the facebe staring (someone) in the face
1.
if a solution to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious.
We spent ages wondering how we could make more space in the shop and the answer was staring us in the face all the time.
2.
if an unpleasant experience is staring you in the face, it is very likely to happen to you.
With only one day's supply of water left, death was staring him in the face.

be staring (one) in the face

1. To be an unavoidable situation or issue. I know you don't want to pay for this expensive course of treatment, but if you keep ignoring your health, a hospital stay will be staring you in the face.
2. To be very obvious, especially suddenly. Thanks to all of those failed experiments, the solution is finally staring me in the face! Unfortunately, the solution—to break up—had been staring us in the face all along.

be staring someone in the face

If the facts about something are staring you in the face, they are very obvious, although you may not yet have realized this. Even when the evidence is staring them in the face they deliberately misread it. Sometimes you're trying to solve a complex problem, and you suddenly realise that the answer has been staring you in the face all along.

be staring someone in the face

(of a fact or object) be glaringly apparent or obvious.
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