face like a fiddle

English

Noun

face like a fiddle (plural faces like fiddles)

  1. (colloquial, simile) A long face; a melancholy expression.
    • 2006, Bowering Sivers, Jammy Dodgers Go Underground, page 347:
      '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. […] '
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