give (someone) a blank stare
give (someone) a blank stare
To look at someone with a facial expression with no emotional articulation, usually implying befuddlement, incomprehension, or being overwhelmed by something. I tried to explain to him why what he did was wrong, but he just sat there, giving me a blank stare. Claire just gives me a blank stare any time I ask her about that traumatic accident.
See also: blank, give, stare
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- give (someone) a blank look
- give a blank look
- blank look on (one's) face
- look blank
- make a face
- make a face (at someone)
- pull/make faces/a face
- hither
- come-hither look
- give (someone) the stink eye