wear a long face
Example Sentences
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When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time.
From Time Magazine Archive
A man must be very far in his dotage, indeed, when he begins to wear a long face over the sharp breaths that he drew in youth.
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
You will not do your business better because you wear a long face all the time; you will do it worse.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
"Amid the general dance and minstrelsy" who would wear a long face, unless it were in sympathy with his length of ears?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
I'm not going to lecture you nor wear a long face nor find fault—ever—we're going to wear smiles while our experiment lasts.
From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
