make a wry face
Example Sentences
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Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave his big paw in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Mr. Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!"
From Time Magazine Archive
This is some more of my very own medicine, so I shouldn't make a wry face over taking it.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
"Yes, madame," I replied, with an expression that made Madame Dauberny smile; and it seemed to me that that smile caused Monsieur Archibald to make a wry face.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Charles Paul de Kock
From time to time he would interrupt operations to make a wry face and, blinking his eyes, to lisp out rapturously, "Sour!"
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
