be staring someone in the face Definition

stare
verb

intr
stared, staring
1. Said of someone or their eyes: to look with a fixed gaze.

Thesaurus: look, watch, gaze, gawk, gape, glare.

noun

1. An act of staring.
2. A fixed gaze.

Idiom: be staring someone in the face

Said of a solution, etc: to be readily apparent, but unnoticed.

Said of a misfortune, etc: to be menacingly imminent.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon starian.

Phrasal Verb: stare someone out or down

To stare more fixedly at (someone staring back), causing them to look away.