To face it out. To persist in an assertion which is not true. To maintain without changing colour or hanging down the head.
To face down. To withstand with boldness and effrontery.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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