face as long as a fiddle
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You’re looking sort of white about the gills, and pulling a face as long as a fiddle, instead of hooraying like mad.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
I will say for her that she always did her fair share of the work, but she did it with a face as long as a fiddle.
From In Homespun by E. (Edith) Nesbit
But the more I thought it over the more desolated I became in spirit, so that by the time I meandered back to the shack I had a face as long as a fiddle.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
All looked at her; even Johnny Whitelamb looked, with a face as long as a fiddle.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He had a face as long as a fiddle, and several other officers were looking just as glum.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Geoffrey H. Malins
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