make a wry face

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History already has come to make a wry face on tasting the wine from N�rnberg's chalice.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Mr. Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave his big paw in the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

So, also, although he may first stretch the limb impulsively or make a wry face reflexively, he secures, in a short time, ideas representative of these movements.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

I shall be more full if Caesar meets me graciously; and then those gentlemen who are so jealous that I should have a decent house to live in will make a wry face....

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony