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straight face

noun

  1. a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.



straight face

noun

  1. a serious facial expression, esp one that conceals the impulse to laugh

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • straight-faced adjective
  • straight-facedly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of straight face1

First recorded in 1890–95
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"I think looseheads around the globe are quite weird people," he said, again with a straight face.

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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.”

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The majority kept a straight face while they said that the D.C.

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All the fuss about autopens is doubly strange coming from someone who argued with a straight face that he could declassify secret documents without signing anything.

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We cannot say the same with a straight face, without or without tentacle mouths.

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