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The face you wear so the world never sees the back office.
means The forward-facing part or surface of something — or, by extension, the deliberately presented appearance that conceals what's really going on behind it.
from From Latin frons, frontis, meaning 'forehead' or 'brow' — the part of you that meets the world first. It traveled through Old French front before settling into English, where it kept multiplying meanings: the front of a building, the front line of a battle, a weather front, and eventually the 'front' a person puts up. All of them share that original logic of the forehead — the leading edge, the face turned toward whatever's coming.
- weather origin
- Named after WWI battle lines by Norwegian forecasters
- two faces
- Cold fronts move faster than warm ones
- mob slang
- A legit business hiding the illegitimate one behind it
- front matter
- A book's pages most readers skip entirely
- facing forward
- From Latin frons, meaning forehead or brow
front de liberation nationale — algerian independence movement that fought france from 1954-1962
front national — french far-right political party founded by jean-marie le pen in 1972
front de gauche — french left-wing coalition led by jean-luc mélenchon from 2008-2017