Noun
straight face (plural straight faces)
(idiomatic) A face that is expressionless, especially not laughing.
I don't think I could recite Peter Piper quickly ten times with a straight face.
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. Robert Jordan
I had kept a straight face under worse provocation, so I trust I did well enough then. John Varley
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. Peter Camejo
It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people. Richard Neal
"Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...'" (The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, "Every hotel has Holy Bibles.") Eddie Vedder
What happened wasn't fair!” "Fair? You mean to claim with a straight face that you buy into that heresy, my boy? Scott Lynch