screw up your face

screw up your face
screw up (your) face to make an unpleasant expression with your face.

“This milk is sour,” she said, screwing up her face.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • screw your face up — ˌscrew your ˈeyes/ˈfaceup derived to contract the muscles of your eyes or face because the light is too strong, you are in pain, etc • He took a sip of the medicine and screwed up his face. Main entry: ↑screwderived …   Useful english dictionary

  • screw up face — screw up (your) face to make an unpleasant expression with your face. “This milk is sour,” she said, screwing up her face …   New idioms dictionary

  • screw — screw1 [ skru ] noun count * 1. ) a thin pointed piece of metal used for fastening one thing to another. It has a raised twisted part on it called a thread. You push and turn it with a screwdriver instead of hitting it with a hammer like a nail:… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • screw up — phrasal verb Word forms screw up : present tense I/you/we/they screw up he/she/it screws up present participle screwing up past tense screwed up past participle screwed up 1) [transitive] to make something into a smaller shape by squeezing or… …   English dictionary

  • screw — screw1 [skru:] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: escroe inner screw, nut , from Latin scrofa female pig ] 1.) a thin pointed piece of metal that you push and turn in order to fasten pieces of metal or wood together →↑nail ▪ Fix the frame… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • screw — [[t]skru͟ː[/t]] screws, screwing, screwed 1) N COUNT A screw is a metal object similar to a nail, with a raised spiral line around it. You turn a screw using a screwdriver so that it goes through two things, for example two pieces of wood, and… …   English dictionary

  • screw — 1 noun 1 (C) a thin pointed piece of metal that you push and turn in order to fasten pieces of metal or wood together: Tighten the screws on the plug. 2 (C) slang taboo an act of having sex 3 have a screw loose informal often humorous to be… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • screw up — verb 1. make more intense (Freq. 1) Emotions were screwed up • Syn: ↑heat up, ↑hot up • Hypernyms: ↑intensify, ↑compound, ↑heighten, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • screw up — 1) PHR V ERG If you screw up your eyes or your face, you tighten your eye or face muscles, for example because you are in pain or because the light is too bright. [V P n (not pron)] She had screwed up her eyes, as if she found the sunshine too… …   English dictionary

  • Screw Your Neighbour — An extreme variation of Crazy Eights for 3 or more players, which becomes everyone as a team playing against everyone as individuals. This happens due to switching hands during play and (sometimes) knowing what your opponent is holding. Table ta …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”