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Old 25 July 2008, 01:58 PM   #8 (permalink)
Alien
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yank44 View Post
It seems a rather British way of dealing with emotional topics; keeping a stiff upper lip, as it were. Yank
If you follow the link below, you'll see that although keeping a stiff upper lip is a quintessentially British attitude, they borrowed the phrase itself from the west side of the pond.

World Wide Words: Stiff upper lip
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