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Verb
rub someone's face in (third-person singular simple present rubs someone's face in, present participle rubbing someone's face in, simple past and past participle rubbed someone's face in)
- Alternative form of rub someone's nose in
2011, Kristen Ashley, Penmort Castle, →ISBN:This weekend you're here to rub his face in one failure, his not securing a Beaumaris to marry one of his stepdaughters, while I rub his nose in the ultimate failure for any Beaumaris, true or not, by informing him he needs to pack his bags and get...the fuck...out.
2014, Jami Davenport, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, →ISBN:Jake bristled at the insinuation that he never visited his father unless he wanted something. Even if it was true, Joe didn't need to rub his face in it.
2014, Alex Archer, Celtic Fire, →ISBN:Leaving it out would only make Geraint think she was taunting him with it, trying to rub his face in the fact they'd found not one but two of the treasures, and instead of building bridges between them it would only serve to burn them.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, face, in.