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Straight face   /streɪt feɪs/   Listen
Straight face

noun
1.
A serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement.





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"Straight face" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nellie just one consecutive trip, and the experiment was such a frost that it caused ructions in both families. In her Tonawanda regalia mother wa'n't an exhibit that any English butler could be expected to pass the soup to and still keep a straight face. ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... reddened, keeping a straight face with difficulty. "I give my word," he said solemnly, "that you're wanted as interpreter, and that I'll ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... scholar sits neglected in his study. She places a golden crown on the brow of the slave and flings a tasselled cap at the master. And yet the fool's raiment is worn with as serious and dignified mien as is the kingly crown. She is a malicious person, and while she keeps a straight face before you, it is a hundred to one that she winks behind your back. To be most trusted when she is most ...
— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park
... not as neat in her personal attire as a young girl should be. Among her suitors was Jacobs. He cut out a blacksmith, and a painter, and several young farmers, and father said he never in his life had such a time to keep a straight face, as when Jacobs came to him this spring, and said he was going to marry old Miser Jerrold's daughter. He wanted to quit father's employ, and he thanked him in a real manly way for the manner in which he had always treated him. Well, Jacobs left, and mother says that father ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... try it," said Alhamid with a straight face. "Say, one year out of every ten. It would give the people something to look forward to with anticipation and to look back upon with nostalgia." Then he changed his tone. "If you wish to debate theories of government, Mr. Tarnhorst, possibly we could get up a couple of teams. ...
— Anchorite • Randall Garrett


Words linked to "Straight face" :   facial expression, facial gesture


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