slap in the face (plural slaps in the face)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, in, the, face. (This sense is a translation hub.)
- (figuratively) Something unexpectedly said or done which causes shock or offense; an insult, rebuke, or rebuff.
- Synonym: kick in the teeth
- That Joan's ex-boyfriend turned up to the school dance with Mary was a slap in the face for Joan, and now the girls are no longer best friends.
slap in the face or on the cheek
- Armenian: (dialectal) սիլլա (hy) (silla), ապտակ (hy) (aptak), չափալախ (hy) (čʻapʻalax)
- Catalan: cleca f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: lussing (da) c, ørefigen c
- Dutch: muilpeer (nl), oorvijg (nl)
- Finnish: isku kasvoihin
- French: soufflet (fr) m, gifle (fr) f, claque (fr) f
- Friulian: patàf
- German: Ohrfeige (de) f, Backpfeife (de) f, Watsche (de) f (Bavaria, Austria), Maulschelle (de) f (old-fashioned)
- Alemannic German: Flättere f, Schwinte f, Oorfiige f, Muulschälle f, Watsch m
- Hungarian: pofon (hu), (colloquial) saller (hu), arculcsapás (hu)
- Italian: schiaffo (it) m, sganascione m, sberla (it) f, ceffone (it) m
- Kapampangan: tampal king lupa
- Ladino: chaketon
- Macedonian: шлака́ница f (šlakánica)
- Ngazidja Comorian: mbeye class 9/10
- Norman: cliamuse f, cliaque f
- Persian: سیلی (fa) (sili)
- Polish: policzek (pl) m, liść (pl) m (slang)
- Portuguese: tapa na cara m, tapa no rosto m
- Russian: пощёчина (ru) f (poščóčina), лещ (ru) m (lešč), оплеу́ха (ru) f (opleúxa)
- Serbo-Croatian: šàmar (sh) m
- Spanish: (Latin America) cachetada (es) f, bofetada (es) f, (Spain) torta (es) f, soplamocos, mojicón (es) m (colloquial), pasagonzalo (es) m (rare)
- Swedish: örfil (sv) c
- Tagalog: sampal sa mukha (literally)
- Turkish: sille (tr)
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something unexpectedly said or done which causes shock or offense
