long face

Noun

Meaning

long face (plural long faces)

An expression of sadness and disappointment or gloom.
Why the long face? Is something wrong?

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I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides. Rob Brydon

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice. Mahatma Gandhi

Gordianus was tall with a long face and light eyes. Source: Internet

It is “hexastyle”, with six columns across the pedimented end and thirteen along each long face. Source: Internet

Some show him with full lips, a long face or prominent skull, or sharpened, alert features. Source: Internet

There Afonso was described as "a man of middle stature, with a long face, fresh complexion, the nose somewhat large. Source: Internet

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