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keep a straight face
Don't show one's feelings, especially refrain from laughing. For example, The school orchestra played so many wrong notes that I had trouble keeping a straight face. [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
It was very difficult to keep a straight face because we just played it as seriously as we could, and we’re like, “Should we make a procedural crime show? I think we might have to.”
“Randy,” I thought, trying to keep a straight face as he took our orders.
You can’t keep a straight face with him.
“It was hard to keep a straight face in scenes together,” the “Love, Pamela” memoirist said.
“Close Encounter”: Kate McKinnon was so hilarious describing her experience with the aliens that Ryan Gosling and the rest of the cast couldn’t keep a straight face.
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