Used other than as an idiom: see slap, in, the, face.
Something unexpectedly said or done which causes shock or offense; an insult, rebuke, or rebuff.
That Joan's ex-boyfriend turned up to the school dance with Mary was a slap in the face for Joan, and now the girls are no longer best friends.
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Nearby phrases
Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to slap in the face
on the face ofon the face of itout of one's facepizza faceplain as the nose on one's facepull a faceput on your facered face testred in the facesave faceshow one's faceshut one's faceslap and tickleslap downslap him up!slap leatherslap on the wristslap your mama!slap-happystare someone in the facestraight facestuff one's facesuck faceturkey slapuntil one is blue in the facewritten all over someone's facewritten in someone's face
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