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• to screw one's face into a smile

• to save face, to save one's face

• straining, stretch

• artificial, constrained, enforced, far-fetched, farfetched, feigned, forced, laboured, overwrought, strained, unnatural

• stiltedly

• forced march

• forced gaiety

• forced smile, stagy smile

• academic style

• to dope the engine

• to strain the eyes

• cramped position

• to laugh on the wrong side of the mouth

• to force the pace

• far-fetched comparison

• cramped position

• to set one's wits to work to

• to press on, to press upon

• to strain, to try

• to rack, to stretch

• against the collar, exacting, stiff, trying