Sentence examples for Keep a stiff upper lip from inspiring English sources

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Keep a stiff upper lip.

Refers to a person who doesn't show off his emotions.

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Keep a stiff upper lip.

Keep a stiff upper lip and don't show any emotion in front of the servants but tonight (9pm on ITV) marks the last ever episode of Downton Abbey.

But appropriately enough, he seems to keep a stiff upper lip.

"Manhattan Monologues" is, at times, a master class in how to keep a stiff upper lip.

And don't feel you have to keep a stiff upper lip in all circumstances.

"We're trying to keep a stiff upper lip and every day just get a little bit further," he said.

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Rolls-Royce, by contrast, kept a stiff upper lip.

Mum kept a stiff upper lip until we got to the airport where she crumbled slightly.

Yet while she kept a stiff upper lip, Ms. Bass Levin said friends had repeatedly asked her how she was holding up.

Asked what he would be doing come New Year's, Mr. Sottile, a Phish regular, kept a stiff upper lip.

Fowler is the embodiment of a now-faded British archetype: the suave, impeccably well-mannered man of the world who keeps a stiff upper lip and camouflages any inner torment under a pose of amused knowingness.

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