| 单词 | great stone face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat stone face stone face n. U.S. colloquial a person whose features reveal no emotions; a poker-faced person; esp. in great stone face in playful allusion to Hawthorne's tale (see bracketed quot. a1873 for stone-coloured adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > without expression or expressionless > person poker face1874 stone face1949 1850 N. Hawthorne Great Stone Face in National Era 16 Jan. 16/1 The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature..formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position, as, when viewed at a proper distance, precisely to resemble the features of a human countenance.] 1949 Life 5 Sept. 82/2 (heading) The great stone face [of Buster Keaton]. 1960 Newsweek 25 Jan. 90/2 Here is the Great Stone Face on the most famous element of this vanishing art, his dead pan. 1972 J. Mosedale Football iv. 47 Even in high school his classmates called him the ‘Great Stone Face’. 1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 88/3 Only a stoneface could resist smiling. < as lemmas |
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