face like a fiddle

noun

A long face; a melancholy expression.

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Meanings

nounface like a fiddle (plural faces like fiddles)

plural faces like fiddles

  1. colloquialsimileA 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

    Synonyms: face as long as a fiddle

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA long face; a melancholy expression.

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Chicago

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