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the leak in every poker face, broadcasting your soul before your brain approves it
means The act of putting an inner thought, feeling, or idea into outward form — through words, a facial look, art, or a mathematical formula — so others can perceive it.
from From Latin 'expressus,' the past participle of 'exprimere,' meaning 'to press out' — built from 'ex-' (out) and 'premere' (to press, the same root behind 'press' and 'pressure'). The literal image is squeezing something out, like juice from a fruit, and that pressing-out shifted to the figurative: forcing an inner state into the visible world. It reached English through Old French in the late Middle Ages.
- universal seven
- Core emotions show identically across every human culture
- micro-tells
- Real feelings flash in under a second
- facial muscles
- Forty-three of them sculpt every look
- born wired
- Blind babies smile without ever seeing one
- math too
- Algebra uses 'expression' for unsolved fragments
mona lisa — da vinci's painting (1503-1519) famous for her enigmatic smile
the scream — edvard munch's 1893 painting of anguished facial expression
american gothic — grant wood's 1930 painting of stern farmer and daughter's faces