To put on a brazen face/ be insolent/ to defy

Behave with a bold face. Be rude or behave impolitely.

("And she took hold of him and kissed him, and she lifted up her face and said to him" Proverbs 7:13, and so: "Rabbi Judan said: Everyone who lifts up his face against the king is as if he lifts up his face against a house" - in the beginning of Rava 9, and so: "Rava said, because of what the Torah said, 'The way to accept the portion of the claim is to be satisfied', she lifted up: No one lifts up his face against his husband" - Baba Matzia 3 A.A., and so on: "And he came near to the door of her house/ And the woman shut herself in before him/ And she caught him by his garment/ And she saw the greatness of his beauty and was astonished/ And her face grew bold and she said to him" - Yitzhak ibn Sahula (13th century)/ They said that it was in Ashdod, and so on: "A gathering of yams, in a grove/ Did she grow bold in her face to attack/ In the watch, Khalilah?" - H.N. Bialik/ Hope is poor, and so: "And when they saw that a man was bold enough to divide it, they sought to tear him to pieces" - Agnon/ Two disciples of wise men who were in our city, 13, and so: "Say to me, 'You are bold enough to say against me that I am exempt'" - Agnon/Tamol Shilshom, 325).

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