English

Verb

show one's face

1. (idiomatic) To appear publicly.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V:

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.