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	Pronounced	Usage
Manuele	mah-NWE-le	Italian
Alma (2)	-	Hebrew
Vaishnavi	-	Hinduism, Tamil, Indian, Telugu, Marathi
Emanuela	-	Italian, Romanian
Gerald	JER-əld (English), GE-rahlt (German)	English, German
Waldomar	-	Ancient Germanic