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Annotation: "Rest your features" is spoken, if I remember right, by the heroine of The Member of the Wedding.
Is it a known expression by native speakers of English? :-)
It seems possible that Carson McCullers invented it, and the relatively amateur authors of "Cheaper by the Dozen" read it in "The Member of the Wedding"; but I've not certainly traced it to the latter. If it does not appear there, it almost certainly had wide circulation in America in the early part of the 20th century. It's the sort of thing that has its life in a narrow age-range. It takes a certain sophistication to appreciate, and it's exciting to well-bred children because it's rude--but not rude enough to earn a reprimand--then, in just a few years, it starts to seem childish and is abandoned.
In any case, it has the flavor of the American South before 1950.
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"Rest your features" is pseudo-polite for "Shut up."
added by halfb1t, November 27, 2012
