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To keep two faces under one hood. To be double-faced; to pretend to be very religious, and yet live an evil life.

We never troubled the ChurchWe knew we were doing what we ought not to do, and scorned to look pious, and keep two faces under one hood.”—Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms, chap. ii.

To make faces. To make grimaces with the face.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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