to take a liking to someone, to like someone right away
Não fui com a cara dele desde o primeiro dia de trabalho.
I didn't like him from the first day of work.
The expression treats the face as a first calling card: the cara is what we see before any words, and it gives us our first impression of someone. So ir com a cara de alguém means taking an immediate liking to someone, liking them at first sight; its negative form, não ir com a cara, means disliking someone without quite knowing why.
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