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One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self-restraint
Self Control

Self Control is the third album by singer Laura Branigan, released in 1984 in music....
 in the expression of emotion
Emotion

An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view....
. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom
Idiom

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative language meaning that is known only through common use....
 keep a stiff upper lip, and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being reserved; the idiom is however of American
American English

PhonologyIn many ways, compared to English language in England, North American English is conservative in its phonology. Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast of the United States , partly because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestigious varieties of English English at a time when those varieties we...
 origin. The earliest known example is in a publication called the "Massachusetts Spy" for 14 June 1815: "I kept a stiff upper lip, and bought [a] license to sell my goods."

English author P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Order of the British Empire was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read....
's comic novel Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on March 22 1963 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 16 1963 by Herbert Jenkins, London....
 (1963) parodies this trait.

The rock
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 band AC/DC
AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
 also released a song
Stiff Upper Lip (song)

"Stiff Upper Lip" is a song by rock band AC/DC. This song is on their 2000 in music album Stiff Upper Lip, and it is composed by Angus Young and Malcolm Young....
 and album
Stiff upper lip

One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self control in the expression of emotion. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom keep a stiff upper lip, and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as bein...
 of the same name in the year 2000.








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One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self-restraint
Self Control

Self Control is the third album by singer Laura Branigan, released in 1984 in music....
 in the expression of emotion
Emotion

An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view....
. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom
Idiom

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative language meaning that is known only through common use....
 keep a stiff upper lip, and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being reserved; the idiom is however of American
American English

PhonologyIn many ways, compared to English language in England, North American English is conservative in its phonology. Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast of the United States , partly because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestigious varieties of English English at a time when those varieties we...
 origin. The earliest known example is in a publication called the "Massachusetts Spy" for 14 June 1815: "I kept a stiff upper lip, and bought [a] license to sell my goods."

English author P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Order of the British Empire was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read....
's comic novel Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on March 22 1963 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 16 1963 by Herbert Jenkins, London....
 (1963) parodies this trait.

The rock
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 band AC/DC
AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
 also released a song
Stiff Upper Lip (song)

"Stiff Upper Lip" is a song by rock band AC/DC. This song is on their 2000 in music album Stiff Upper Lip, and it is composed by Angus Young and Malcolm Young....
 and album
Stiff upper lip

One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self control in the expression of emotion. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom keep a stiff upper lip, and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as bein...
 of the same name in the year 2000.

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