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straight face
noun
- a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
straight face
noun
- a serious facial expression, esp one that conceals the impulse to laugh
Derived Forms
- ˈstraight-ˈfaced, adjective
Other Words From
- straight-faced adjective
- straight-fac·ed·ly [streyt, -, fey, -sid-lee, -, feyst, -lee], adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of straight face1
Idioms and Phrases
see keep a straight face .Example Sentences
Though I sometimes miss the verisimilitude of the early films, there’s something goofily enthralling about the fact that these movies can now feature Vin Diesel taking on a literal submarine and mostly pull that idea off with a straight face.
There are some movie titles you can’t say with a straight face, and Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is one of them.
“That’s so obviously not going to happen it’s a wonder we could include it with a straight face,” Meyers said.
Amazing how people can still haul this one out with a straight face.
His commitment to keeping a straight face is more impressive than his dancing.
At one point Imagine Dragons and Lorde were invoked as examples of “a pretty good year for rock,” with a straight face.
When you worked with him, your job was to keep a straight face.
Even Loaded Lux could not keep a straight face, smiling as his competitor established a clear, early lead and never let up.
"If you can keep a straight face and deny everything, we will have a few minutes of fun with Dick," said Garry with a wink.
Although it nearly killed them to do it, the others maintained a straight face and listened with interest.
But if we can hardly look a crab in the eye and keep a straight face, what would we do if we met a duck-billed mole?
"To whom, is what you mean, little man," Dawson said with a straight face.
With the aid of his monocle, von Schlichten managed to keep a straight face.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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