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- set one's face against
set one's face against
set one's face against
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.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Bastien | | bas-TYAWN | French |
Antonijo | | - | Croatian |
Achab | | - | Biblical Latin |
Dinis | | dee-NEES (Portuguese), jee-NEES (Brazilian Portuguese) | Portuguese |
Arleen | | ahr-LEEN | English |
Olja | | - | Serbian |