Is the phrase "in my face" an idiom?
Native speaker’s answer
Rebecca
Yes, you are correct. "In my/your/her/his/their face" is an informal expression used to mean "directly." Thus, we can understand the speaker saying "she laughed in my face" to mean "she laughed directly at me [in my face]." Ex: He laughed at me in my face. (He laughed directly at me) Ex: He slammed the door in my face. (He rejected me directly)