wipe the smile off sb's face
to make someone feel less happy or confident, especially someone who is annoying you because they think they are very clever:
Tell him you saw Helena at the cinema with another guy - that should wipe the smile off his face!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- take sb aback
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
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