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
Joaninha	-	Portuguese
Julijana	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Natalius	-	Late Roman
Waldobert	-	Ancient Germanic
ThÉO	te-O	French
Svetomir	-	Serbian, Bulgarian