DOUBLE FACED MEANING

A.    Definition OF Double Faced Meaning

According to American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the definition of double faced are:

1. Having two faces or aspects.

2. Usable on both sides: double-faced fabric.

3. Duplicitous; hypocritical.

Examples

1.      Double-faced clocks still in use on the railroad network.

2.      Double-faced wall, the side not visible in the photograph needs to be rebuilt.

3.      Double-faced policy of the Greek regime was one of the main obstacles to the progress of the talks.

Double-faced - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another double-faced - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"

When someone tells you one thing, and then tells the opposite to someone else. When someone does the opposite of what they tell you they will do.

B.     Usage of “two-faced”

1.      She's two-faced, never trust her.

2.      He told me he would put in a good word with my boss, but it looks like the two-faced jerk actually revealed some of my negatives

According to Wagiman, “an idiom is a group of words with a new meaning which is quite different from the meaning of the words individually”.[1]

The some examples of idioms are:

1.      Run across = meet or find accidentally

2.      Fly high = full of hope

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[1] Wagiman, SEMANTICS: An Introduction to the basic consepts, Yogyakarta, Penerbit andi, 2008, p. 40.