wear a long face
Example Sentences
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When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm not going to lecture you nor wear a long face nor find fault—ever—we're going to wear smiles while our experiment lasts.
From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
You will not do your business better because you wear a long face all the time; you will do it worse.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
"Amid the general dance and minstrelsy" who would wear a long face, unless it were in sympathy with his length of ears?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
It is now I who wear a long face, and she cannot dissemble her joy.
From Samuel Brohl and Company by Cherbuliez, Victor
