face as long as a fiddle

It was now towards the end of October and exceedingly cold, and her door and window being shut, she felt very wisht;4 and as the days jogged on to dreary November she became terribly depressed, so much so that Tom dreaded to leave her sitting all alone by the chimney-corner with a face as long as a fiddle.

You’re looking sort of white about the gills, and pulling a face as long as a fiddle, instead of hooraying like mad.

"Aw, 'deed, my lord," said Jabez, with a face as long as a fiddle, "if the New Year's no better than the ould one, what with quiet times and high rents and the children's schooling, it's going on the houses I'll be, middlin' safe."

You sit there with a face as long as a fiddle, wondering whether you are in love with a girl or not!

The foc'sle had been turned into hospital about a week, an' I was on deck doing some odd job or the other, when the cook comes up to me pulling a face as long as a fiddle.