face as long as a fiddle

Example Sentences

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You've got a face as long as a fiddle, and I never could abide black hair.'

From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)

You sit there with a face as long as a fiddle, wondering whether you are in love with a girl or not!

From The Hillman by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

No need for you to sit about with a face as long as a fiddle because you can't succeed all at once.

From Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by Grefé, Will

You’re looking sort of white about the gills, and pulling a face as long as a fiddle, instead of hooraying like mad.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

I will say for her that she always did her fair share of the work, but she did it with a face as long as a fiddle.

From In Homespun by Nesbit, E. (Edith)