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straight face
noun
- a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
straight face
noun
- a serious facial expression, esp one that conceals the impulse to laugh
Derived Forms
- ˈٰ-ˈڲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٰ-ڲ adjective
- ٰ-ڲ·· [streyt, -, fey, -sid-lee, -, feyst, -lee], adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of straight face1
Idioms and Phrases
see keep a straight face .Example Sentences
All the fuss about autopens is doubly strange coming from someone who argued with a straight face that he could declassify secret documents without signing anything.
We cannot say the same with a straight face, without or without tentacle mouths.
Morgan has a remarkable ability to maintain a straight face throughout these interviews.
Those teams just have to sneak into the playoffs with 80-some wins — no owner can say with a straight face he cannot afford a team that can do that — and get hot in October.
“She has an unhealthy and possibly sexual obsession with him,” an aide to Sen. Mitch McConnell told me with a straight face.
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