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
Laurentius	-	Ancient Roman
Maaike	-	Dutch
ClÍOdhna	KLEE-u-na	Irish, Irish Mythology
Mitzi	MIT-see	German
Sandeep	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil
Devraj	-	Indian, Hindi