make a wry face
Example Sentences
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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
"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
History already has come to make a wry face on tasting the wine from N�rnberg's chalice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peggy bit it daintily, expecting to make a wry face over it, but to her surprise she found it not half bad.
From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Burnham, Margaret
I've seen what meanness she can do and what dirt he can swallow, and not even make a wry face over it!
From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
