head-on | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Direct,abrupt,bluntorunequivocal; notprevaricating.ahead-onapproach to a problem2000[1995],François Jullien, “Preface”, in Sophie Hawkes, transl.,Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece[Le Détour et l'accès: Stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce]‎[1], New York: Zone Books, published2004,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page 7:In what way do we benefit from speaking of things indirectly? How does such a distancing allow us to better discover - and describe - people and objects? How doesdistancingproduce an effect? Westerners find it natural and normal to meet the worldhead-on. But what can we gain from approaching the worldobliquely?; Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.Getting into ahead-oncollision is dangerous.2021February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, inRAIL, number925, page39:This secondary collision,head-onwith a closing speed of 142mph, caused the DVT to veer off to the left. Many of the coaches behind it overturned and careered into an adjacent field.

Examples:

EN: I wouldn't have got Voss if he hadn't come at me head-on.
ES: Y Voss no lo hubiera pillado si no se me hubiera puesto delante.
EN: I plan to run the Bounty in head-on, salvage what we can, then burn her.
ES: Planeo entrar el Bounty de punta, salvar lo que se pueda y quemarlo.
EN: Ran into them? Looks like you met them head-on.
ES: -¿ Y te diste de bruces?
EN: I know it's tough to run head-on into facts.
ES: Sé que es difícil afrontar los hechos así.
EN: Miss Phoebe, I'd follow you head-on into a barreled cactus... but there's some shenanigans that oughtn't to be did... like staying on here for one thing.
ES: Srta. Phoebe, me metería en un tonel lleno de cactus por usted, pero hay tonterías que no deben hacerse, como quedarse aquí.
ES: ¿Por qué queréis abandonar ahora? Srta. Phoebe, me metería en un tonel lleno de cactus por usted, pero hay tonterías que no deben hacerse, como quedarse aquí.
EN: Attack them head-on.
ES: Atacarlos de frente.
EN: Hit by a train, head-on collision. Half the wheels still spinning in me head.
ES: - Me arrolló un tren, y aún lo noto.
EN: Well, he's see you now or you're going to witness a head-on collision.
ES: Le verá ahora o tendrá que presenciar una colisión frontal.
EN: - See for yourself. Want a head-on crash?
ES: -Mire eso. ¿Quiere estrellarse?
EN: I confronted him head-on.
ES: Lo encaré de frente.
EN: I thought I'd spare our respective families from running head-on into each other the very first morning.
ES: Pensé que era mejor evitarles a nuestras respectivas familias un enfrentamiento la primera mañana.
EN: Torpedoes ran true, hit head-on, no explosion.
ES: Dio en el blanco, pero no explotó.
EN: - How does it look? - Better than we expected. We'll need every bit, or we'll hit the new world head-on, at ten miles a second.
ES: Si no, colisionaremos con el nuevo mundo, a 15 km/seg.
EN: And don't meet him head-on.
ES: Y no te enfrentes a el.
EN: A man gets set for trouble head-on, and it sneaks up behind him every time.
ES: Uno se mete en problemas de frente, y lo atrapan siempre desde atrás.

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