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
Cerys	-	Welsh
Jeronim	-	Croatian
Herodes	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
Yulian	-	Russian, Bulgarian
Zebulon	-	Biblical
Yevhen	-	Ukrainian