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self-restraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief)
the British like to keep a stiff upper lip
How To Use stiff upper lip In A Sentence
- With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
- Their reaction contrasts sharply with the stiff upper lip of the English.
- Men were taught to keep a stiff upper lip .
- In one scene, the heroic spacewoman's stiff upper lip speech is a little more dramatic than the one in the subtitles.
- Britons have shed their stiff upper lip reputation and have embraced hugging, a new study suggests. Times, Sunday Times
- Their reaction contrasts sharply with the stiff upper lip of the English.
- Stiff upper lips and stiff lower lips. Times, Sunday Times
- Stiff upper lips and stiff lower lips. Times, Sunday Times
- He was taught to keep a stiff upper lip and never to cry in public.
- the British like to keep a stiff upper lip