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keep a straight face
Don't show one's feelings, especially refrain from laughing. For example, The school orchestra played so many wrong notes that I had trouble keeping a straight face. [Late 1800s]
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The world’s leaders—friends, foes, and those in between—keep a straight face at all this.
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It was very difficult to keep a straight face because we just played it as seriously as we could, and we’re like, “Should we make a procedural crime show? I think we might have to.”
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“Randy,” I thought, trying to keep a straight face as he took our orders.
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You can’t keep a straight face with him.
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“It was hard to keep a straight face in scenes together,” the “Love, Pamela” memoirist said.
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