{"id":17425,"date":"2018-05-03T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T01:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2018-05-03T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T01:37:38","slug":"turn-that-smile-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/05\/03\/turn-that-smile-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn that smile upside-down"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I was thinking about the phrase \u201cthe smile never reached his eyes\u201d. It's quite a common phrase, and it indicates an insincere facial expression, right? Or, rather, an insincerely positive facial expression. Is there a common phrase for an insincerely negative facial expression? There probably isn't a need for one, but if there was, what would it be?\r\n<p>The frown never reached his&#8230; eyebrows? His scowl was only skin-deep?\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if the difference between the British and American frowns comes in to play, here, but I suppose it might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17426,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions\/17426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}