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to rearrange someone's face

to rearrange someone's face

9.9
Hit someone's face hard so it looks damaged
  • idiom
  • Offensive
translation icon : partirle la cara (a alguien)
  • She threatened to rearrange his face if he didn't leave her alone.

Examples

  • He rearranged someone's face during the fight.

  • If you insult him again, he might just rearrange your face.

  • After the brutal match, it looked like someone had tried to rearrange his face.

  • Don't rearrange his face in that way!

  • If you keep provoking him, he will definitely rearrange your face.

  • He looked worse after the fight, like someone had tried to rearrange his face.

  • She warned him not to cross her, or she'd rearrange his face.

Synonyms

to smash someone's face in
vsto rearrange someone's face
  • Offensive
1 9.8

Hit someone in the face very hard to hurt them

aims to change facial appearance by punching or striking
to bash someone's face in
vsto rearrange someone's face
  • NSFW
9.9

To hit someone's face very hard to hurt them

focuses on altering appearance rather than only causing harm

How Violent

to rearrange someone's face
  • Offensive
9.9
to beat up
  • Offensive
271 4.1
to punch
455 1.4
to slap
492 1.0
shove
31 2.7
to push
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

rearrange someone's face infinitive
rearranged someone's face past
rearranged someone's face past participle
rearranging someone's face present participle
rearranges someone's face third person singular

Morphology

rearrange + someone's + face

The components 'rearrange' (to change the order/arrangement) and 'face' (the front part of the head) together suggest changing someone's facial appearance, so a learner who knows the words can infer a meaning involving altering the face — typically by violent action such as punching. However, the use of 'rearrange' to mean 'punch/strike' is a metaphorical/slangy extension rather than a literal composition, so the exact sense is not fully predictable without exposure.

Etymology

Rearrange someone's face comes from the image of someone being hit so hard their features look changed, as if someone had rearranged the face. So it is used to mean 'to punch or badly hurt someone's face'.