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Facer

noun

(a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.

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"Facer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thomas sprung at him. The master, however, was on the alert, and swinging round, met him with a straight facer between the eyes, and Thomas ...

— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor

... long time ago, and she's as much mine as she is yours. So, what's the odds now? It's a facer, I'll admit, but it can't be helped." It was thus that the man whose anger, only a few hours before had led him almost to crime, now readily absolved ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... facer, certainly," said Bob, rather warmly; "but if you come to that, where would you have been if we hadn't come to your help— burnt out by this time, with your ...

— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn

... he muttered gloatingly, for the hundredth time. "I've paid him out at last! He won't take a 'walk over' again in a hurry. Cuss them swells! They allays die so game; it ain't half a go after all, giving 'em a facer; they just come up to time so cool under it all, and never show they are down, even when their backers throw up the sponge. You can't make 'em give in, not even when they're mortal hit; that's the ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

Words linked to "Facer" : United Kingdom, Great Britain, U.K., difficulty, Britain, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland