face out
verb1
To carry off by bold looks; to see something unpleasant through with courage and spirit.
- `Well,' I said to the others, `I don't at all like the look of things, but I suppose we must face it out.'1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- Related terms
- face facts, head-on, tough out