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face like a fiddle en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, qualifier:simile) A long face; a melancholy expression.
    • 'She's got the wiffle-woffles,' said her mother. 'She was all right when she came back […] but now she just mopes around, face like a fiddle. […]' 2006, Bowering Sivers, Jammy Dodgers Go Underground, page 347:

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faces like fiddles Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

face as long as a fiddle