Meaning of WITH A STRAIGHT FACE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So, in English there's a couple things
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you can do with a straight face.
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By the way, a straight face looks like this.
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A straight face is a face with no emotion.
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So, you can tell a joke with a straight face.
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So, you can tell someone something funny,
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like a joke with a straight face.
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And, that would mean that while you're telling the joke
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you don't smile, you don't laugh a little bit,
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you don't giggle.
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So, you can tell a joke with a straight face,
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but you can also tell a lie with a straight face.
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So, when you lie with a straight face it means that,
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you tell the lie so well that you show no hint,
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no emotion that what you are telling is a lie.
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So, you can tell a joke with a straight face.
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That's the good way to have a straight face,
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or you can tell a lie with a straight face.
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And that's not a good way to have a straight face.
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But either way, here's a straight face again
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just so you know.
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Actually, that looked a little bit like a mean face.
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Hey, when someone tells a lie with a straight face,
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sometimes we would call that a barefaced lie.
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So, a barefaced lie is just a bold lie that someone tells
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without any hint as they're telling it,
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that they're telling a lie.
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So, a barefaced lie is just,
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someone who is a really good liar.
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That's the word we use to describe someone who lies.
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Someone who is a really good liar, and they're able to
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tell a lie with a straight face fairly easily.
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We would say that they are telling a barefaced lie.
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Anyways, hoped that helped you a little bit.
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Bob the Canadian here, you're learning English with me.
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I hoped I'm helping everyday.
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Have a good day, bye.
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