put on a brave face

July 24, 2008 -- 2:47 p.m. EDT Ballmer Addresses Failed Yahoo Bid

Ballmer put a good face on Microsoft's failed attempt to buy Yahoo, saying the company can now be more flexible in competing with Google. Separately, Microsoft announced plans to bring its Web search and search ads to social-networking site Facebook.

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put on a brave face (ALSO put a brave face on it)
to behave as if a problem is not important or does not worry you:
She seems all right but I suspect she's just putting on a brave face.