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单词 a stiff upper lip
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a stiff upper lip

A quality of uncomplaining stoicism: senior managers had to keep a stiff upper lip and remain optimistic...
  • Upper-class Englishmen pride themselves on discretion and a stiff upper lip, deeply unfashionable human qualities in these tabloid times.
  • But, if the governing class goes about business as usual, that's not a stiff upper lip but a death wish.
  • Most of the women were crying, but I kept a stiff upper lip.
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