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faces like fiddles

faces like fiddles is the plural of face like a fiddle.

Meaning of face like a fiddle

Noun

face like a fiddle (plural faces like fiddles)

  1. (colloquial, 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

Questions about faces like fiddles

What is faces like fiddles the plural of?
Faces like fiddles is the plural of face like a fiddle.

Words near faces like fiddles in the dictionary

  1. faces down
  2. faces facts
  3. faces for radio
  4. faces for television
  5. faces like bags of spanners
  6. faces like fiddles
  7. faces like smacked arses
  8. faces like smacked asses
  9. faces like smacked bums
  10. faces like thunder
  11. faces off

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