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set one's face against
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Strongly disapprove, as in Her parents set their faces against her eloping . The term set one's face has been used in the sense of “assume a fixed facial expression” since the mid-1500s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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