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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 Church … We 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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