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Stiff upper lip   /stɪf ˈəpər lɪp/   Listen
Stiff upper lip

noun
1.
Self-restraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief).





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"Stiff upper lip" Quotes from Famous Books



... that you must see it," the stranger continued, bravely. "A stiff upper lip, as you call it here, is all very well to begin with. But all you enlightened members of the great republic know what is what. It will bring you more than ten years' income of your saw-mill, and farm, and so on, to deal honestly with me for ten minutes. No more beating about the bush and fencing ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... stiff upper lip. Cactus Center is on the job. Don't know when my chance will come, but I'm looking ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... very great age. Some of them even get to be a hundred years old. If that is the case, Bella will outlive all of us. She notices that I am getting blind and feeble, and when I go down to call on Mrs. Morris, she calls out to me, "Keep a stiff upper lip, Beautiful Joe. Never say die, Beautiful Joe. Keep the ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... s life insurance?) "for the benefit of my natural heirs"—the same being my mother, for Livy wouldn't claim it, you may be sure of that. This has taken $200 out of my pocket which I was going to send to Ma. But I will send her some, soon. Tell Orion to keep a stiff upper lip—when the worst comes to the worst I will come forward. Must talk in Providence, R. I., tonight. Must leave now. I thank Mollie and Orion and the rest for your letters, but you see how I am pushed—ought to have 6 ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... pride is usually a spur to the strong and a drag on the weak. It drives the strong man along and holds the weak one back. It makes the fellow with the stiff upper lip and the square jaw smile at a laugh and laugh at a sneer; it keeps his conscience straight and his back humped over his work; it makes him appreciate the little things and fight for the big ones. But it makes the fellow ...
— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer


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