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stiff upper lip in British English lip (sense 9) See full dictionary entry for stiffExamples of 'stiff upper lip' in a sentencestiff upper lip `I suppose it's his stiff upper lip that makes him talk funny.and `Keep a stiff upper lip, play the game and don't let the side down!That's a stiff upper lip for you.Think we have a stiff upper lip?Through it all, though, he has maintained a stiff upper lip.All we have left is a stiff upper lip.With austerity measures the stiff upper lip is hard to crack into a smile.It is what the stiff-upper-lip people have come to expect from the 43-year-old.At least his stiff upper lip was still intact.The eyebrow went up again, the stiff upper lip twitched. |