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
Rosa (1)	RO-sah (Spanish, Dutch), RAW-zah (Italian), RO-zə (English)	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, English
Martyna	mahr-TI-nah	Polish
Nissa	-	Hebrew
Hans	[hænz]
Elbert	['elbət]
Browning	['brauniŋ]