make a wry face
Example Sentences
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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
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
We shall hardly be able to do this if we make a wry face over the failure of our hopes in the past or over our anxiety for the future.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
This is some more of my very own medicine, so I shouldn't make a wry face over taking it.
From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene
