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.
See also:
  • 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