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
Emerens	-	Dutch
Alberto	ahl-BER-to (Italian, Spanish), al-BER-too (Portuguese)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Liam	LEE-əm (English)	Irish, English
ZÉPhyrine	-	French (Rare)
Jarred	['dʒa:rid]
Sumeet	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi