straight face

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The answer, if you're interested, is 3.86kg, but it's typical of his sardonic humour, everything said with a straight face.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

And I remember thinking, “oh my gosh, that someone could say that with a straight face? What am I doing here?”

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

“We want to say with a straight face that we are a bargain—not in a reasonable world but in the actual world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Down a busy street in Sants, Maleducat was rewriting Catalan home cooking with a straight face.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025

How could I ask for “horse” with a straight face?

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini