long face

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long face

A discontented or sullen facial expression.

long′-faced′ adj.

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long face

a disappointed, solemn, or miserable facial expression

ˌlong-ˈfaced adj

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long′ face′

an unhappy or gloomy expression.

[1780–90]

Translations

long face

n to pull a long face → fare il muso (lungo)

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He did not weep nor groan any more, but his long face was quite solemn and his big ears hung dejectedly on each side of it.

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He was rather a melancholy young man, with a long face not unlike a pessimistic horse.

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The ould divil himself niver behild sich a long face as he pet an!

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"Go away!" said Catherine, with a very long face. "And why?"

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She drew a long face, and half-closing her eyes, quickly transformed her expression, folded her hands, and Vronsky suddenly saw in her beautiful face the very expression with which Alexey Alexandrovitch had bowed to him.

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Chitling, with a very long face, as he drew half-a-crown from his waistcoat-pocket.

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Every body was punctual, every body in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen.

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Sancho, as has been already said, was the only one who was distressed, unhappy, and dejected; and so with a long face he went in to his master, who had just awoke, and said to him:

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"And you, by your long face, should be a Whig?"[13]

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They went into a field, sat down, and the two pulled long faces. An old woman passed by, and asked them why they were so sad.

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But do they only have mercy on long faces? --have they no bowels for a laugh?

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And I suppose Augusta and Welland pulled long faces, and behaved as if the end of the world had come?