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.
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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.
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"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!"
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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