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
Peggy bit it daintily, expecting to make a wry face over it, but to her surprise she found it not half bad.
From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham
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
I shall be more full if Caesar meets me graciously; and then those gentlemen who are so jealous that I should have a decent house to live in will make a wry face....
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
