| 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 |