pull faces (at someone)

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pull faces (at someone)

To make distorted, silly, or humorous facial expressions (at someone) for one's own or someone else's amusement. I get great laughs out of my nieces and nephews by pulling faces at them. Mom, tell Billy to quit pulling faces, he's really annoying me!

See also: face, pull

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The trick to this is to spend as much time as possible with your neck craned around, shouting and red-faced, swerving out of control while the little darlings smear jam into the upholstery and pull faces at passing drivers.

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I don't care either if my own children aged four and three pull faces at the vegetables on their plate and demand sweets and crisps.

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I used to pull faces at the volunteers as I went past.

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As the fireworks signal midnight we break on through to the other side, dance despite the weather and pull faces at the clouds.

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When I let people sample the meat they say how tasty it is - but when I then tell them what it is, some pull faces at the thought of eating eel," he said.

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MIKE Nattrass MEP is recruiting a team of gurners to pull faces at Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the EU Commission.

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But when I then tell them what it is some pull faces at the thought of eating eel.