face as long as a fiddle

Example Sentences

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He had a face as long as a fiddle, and several other officers were looking just as glum.

From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.

She has a face as long as a fiddle.

From The Top of the World by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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

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've a face as long as a fiddle!"

From The Luckiest Girl in the School by Brazil, Angela