From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthrow something (back) in somebody’s facethrow something (back) in somebody’s faceUNKINDto be unkind to someone after they have been kind to you or helped you I felt that everything I’d done for them was thrown back in my face. → throw
Examples from the Corpus
throw something (back) in somebody’s face• It was no fun having my own words thrown back at me by my kids.• A lot of their love would be rebuffed or thrown back in their faces.• My love - my name thrown back in my face.• Nobody was throwing anything in their faces.• This would be thrown back in his face later by North Koreaand sooner than anyone guessed.