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
Yan (1)	-	Belarusian
Mykolas	-	Lithuanian
Chinyelu	-	Western African, Igbo
Lea	[li:]
Royse	-	Medieval English
Ramona	rah-MO-nah (Spanish), rə-MON-ə (English)	Spanish, Romanian, English