打臉

1. • to paint one's face with stage makeup
2. • (neologism, attested by 2014) to expose sb as wrong to put egg on sb's face

Character by character

• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 臉(liǎn)face