RichThesaurus
hold in contempt
vs
spit in the eye/face of
hold in contempt
verb
To consider someone unworthy of respect.
To judge someone to have been in contempt of court.
spit in the eye/face of
How often have the words
hold in contempt
and
spit in the eye/face of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)