make/pull a face | show that you do not like something by making an unpleasant expression |
keep a straight face | not to laugh or change your expression even though you want to laugh |
put a brave face on sth | pretend you are happy about sth when you are not happy |
take sth at face value | accept sth as it looks without thinking about whether it might, in fact, not be quite what itappears |
on the face of it | according to the appearance of sth |
face to face | with another person in thair presence rather than, say, by phone or letter |
keep your hair on | calm down |
be tearing/pulling one's hair out | be getting very anxious |
not turn a hair | show no reaction at all |
be at each other's throats | be arguing in a very angry way |
make a clean breast of it | tell the truth about what one had done so that he did not feel guilty anymore |
breath down one's neck | pay close attention to what sb is doing |
get it off your chest | tell sb you feel guilty |
ram it down one's throat | force one to listen to my opinions |
give sb the cold shoulder | ignore sb in a deliberate way |