make a face

make a face (third-person singular simple present makes a face, present participle making a face, simple past and past participle made a face)

1. (colloquial) To make a facial expression, often for humor, as a taunt, or to indicate distaste.
   • 1849, “Mr. Jolly Green's Account Of The Great Paris Excursion”, in W. Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New monthly magazine‎, volume 86, page 98:

     I looked at Tomkins to see whether, by chance, he had made a face at his lordship, ...

• pull a face

• make eyes at
• make mouths at