set one's face against

set one's face against

English

Verb

set one's face against

1. (chiefly Britain) to be determined not to do something.

Further reading

• “set your face against something” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “set one's face against” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
• “set your face against something” (US) / “set your face against something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.