straight facenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌstreɪt ˈfeɪs/us/ˌstreɪt ˈfeɪs/a serious expression on your face that you use when you do not want someone to know that you think something is funny:
Blake looked ridiculous in leather trousers, and I was desperately trying to keep a straight face.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- immune
- phlegmatic
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
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