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

So, in English there's a couple things

you can do with a straight face.

By the way, a straight face looks like this.

A straight face is a face with no emotion.

So, you can tell a joke with a straight face.

So, you can tell someone something funny,

like a joke with a straight face.

And, that would mean that while you're telling the joke

you don't smile, you don't laugh a little bit,

you don't giggle.

So, you can tell a joke with a straight face,

but you can also tell a lie with a straight face.

So, when you lie with a straight face it means that,

you tell the lie so well that you show no hint,

no emotion that what you are telling is a lie.

So, you can tell a joke with a straight face.

That's the good way to have a straight face,

or you can tell a lie with a straight face.

And that's not a good way to have a straight face.

But either way, here's a straight face again

just so you know.

Actually, that looked a little bit like a mean face.

Hey, when someone tells a lie with a straight face,

sometimes we would call that a barefaced lie.

So, a barefaced lie is just a bold lie that someone tells

without any hint as they're telling it,

that they're telling a lie.

So, a barefaced lie is just,

someone who is a really good liar.

That's the word we use to describe someone who lies.

Someone who is a really good liar, and they're able to

tell a lie with a straight face fairly easily.

We would say that they are telling a barefaced lie.

Anyways, hoped that helped you a little bit.

Bob the Canadian here, you're learning English with me.

I hoped I'm helping everyday.

Have a good day, bye.