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Make a face   /meɪk ə feɪs/   Listen
Make a face

verb
1.
Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state.  Synonyms: grimace, pull a face.






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"Make a face" Quotes from Famous Books



... impulse to make a face at him. A shiver ran down his back. "You would not catch me acting so foolishly," he commenced. "This is how I should do. I should count over the first thousand very carefully, perhaps four times, right to the end, carefully examine ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various

... road, smiled and nodded at the Deasy and Schweicker crowd, then deliberately turned to the left and walked into the teacher's dwelling! And Manogi and all the Deasy women saw Miriamu, the teacher's daughter, come to the open window and make a face at them in derision. Peter and Schweicker looked at each other in ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke

... the first specimen of a manufacturer—of a person engaged in trade—that I had ever the opportunity of studying, papa. He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. I know he is good of his kind, and by and by I shall like the kind. I rather think I am already beginning to do so. I was very much interested by what the gentlemen were talking about, although I did not understand ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... continued. "He is a coward. He came upon Wettin from behind and ran his spear through him. He will not be king for long. Some one will make a face at him, and he will run away and jump into ...
— The Lost Continent • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... if it's a transaction," he said, nodding to Robert to close the library door. "Take seats. Now then, what is it? And if I make a face, just oblige me by thinking nothing about it, for my gout's beginning to settle in the leg again, and shoots like an electric telegraph ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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