One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint 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 being unemotional. A sign of weakness is trembling of the upper lip, hence the saying keep a stiff upper lip. When a person's upper lip begins to tremble, it is one of the first signs that the person is scared or shaken by experiencing deep emotion.
It's perhaps surprising "that a phrase so strongly associated with the UK should have originated in America." One of the earliest known references to the phrase was in the Massachusetts Spy, June 1815:
"I kept a stiff upper lip, and bought [a] license to sell my goods."
Poems that feature a memorable evocation of Victorian cold-bloodedness and a stiff upper lip include Rudyard Kipling's "If—" and W. E. Henley's "Invictus". The phrase became symbolic of the British people, and particularly of those who were products of the English public school system during the Victorian era. Such schools aimed to instill a code of discipline and devotion to duty in their students through competitive sports, corporal punishments and cold showers.
Stiff Upper Lip is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's thirteenth internationally released studio album and the fourteenth to be released in Australia. The album was co-produced by George Young, older brother of Malcolm and Angus Young. The album was re-released in the US on 17 April 2007 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series. It was re-released in the UK in 2005.
Background
The Young brothers began writing songs for what would become Stiff Upper Lip in the summer of 1997 in London and the Netherlands with Malcolm on guitar and Angus on drums, and by February 1998 the songs were completed. The band had planned on recording a new album with CanadianBruce Fairbairn, who had produced the enormously successful The Razors Edge and AC/DC Live, but Fairbairn died in May 1999. The Youngs turned to their older brother George, who had produced 1988's Blow Up Your Video as well as the band's early albums with Harry Vanda, and Mike Fraser, who had co-produced 1995's Ballbreaker, to complete Stiff Upper Lip.
Well I was out on a drive On a bit of a trip Lookin’ for thrills To get me some kicks Now I warn you ladies I shoot from the hip I was born with a stiff Stiff upper lip Like a dog in a howl I bite everything And I’m big and I’m drawl And I’ll ball your thing I keep a stiff upper lip And I shoot from the hip I keep a stiff upper lip And I shoot And I shoot Shoot from the hip Yeah I shoot from the hip Now listen Well I’m workin’ it out And I’ve done everything And I can’t reform no Can you feel my sting Babe I keep a stiff upper lip And I shoot from the hip, yeah I keep a stiff upper lip And I shoot And I shoot And I shoot shoot shoot Shoot from the hip Well I’m out on the prowl And I’ll ball your thing I got the teeth that’ll bite you Can you feel my sting Babe I keep a stiff upper lip And I shoot from the hip I keep a stiff upper lip And I shoot shoot shoot from the hip I got a (stiff upper lip) Better believe me (stiff upper lip) Comin' down (stiff upper lip) (Stiff upper lip) Yeah I got a (stiff upper lip) Stiff upper lip Stiff upper lip I got a stiff upper lip I got a stiff upper lip Stiff upper lip Stiff upper lip And I shoot And I shoot And I shoot
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What did you think when you heard that Frogwares had decided to revamp Sherlock Holmes... That said, the storyline has more emotional depth this time around, despite the stiff-upper-lip Britishness.Spoiler Alert! ... Sherlock Holmes ... ....
They proceed to rock out to “Highway To Hell,” and then Gaga reveals that she was in the background of the video for AC/DC’s 2000 single “Stiff Upper Lip.” Her main memory of the experience.
Lady Gaga recently made some big revelations that not only shocked her fans but also a big name in the music industry. By ... Lady Gaga then revealed that she was in the Stiff Upper Lip music video, to which Brian Johnson responded, “No, you weren’t!”.
The singer-songwriter and actress has revealed that she was an extra in the Australian rock band's music video for their 2000s song Stiff Upper Lip ... "You want to hear something funny? I was in the Stiff Upper Lip video," she said ... .
Lady Gaga has recalled being an extra in AC/DC's 'Stiff Upper Lip' music video when she was a teenager ... She remembered. “I was in [the] ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ video. “I was 17 and I was an extra in the back and I was headbanging ... She said ... .
... Gaga reveal that she was an extra in the band’s music video for ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ – she performed a jazz rock rendtion of the 1934 holiday classic ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’.
During Gaga’s segment, she was joined by special guest Johnson to whom she revealed she has been a decades-long AC/DC fan ...Esse vocal! pic.twitter.com/1sxxuiBs6O ... “You want to hear something funny? I was in [2000’s] ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ video.” ... .
Lady Gaga has revealed she was a “headbanging” extra in an AC/DC video as a teenager. READ MORE. ‘Joker. Folie à Deux’ review. Lady Gaga shines in a provocative prison musical ... “I was in [2000’s] ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ video.” ... .
Polly Allen Mellen, the talented and effusive fashion editor, has died. She was 100...Looking like everybody else bored me ... Despite having had a “very, very WASP” upbringing, Mellen did not belong to the stiff-upper-lip school of decorum ... That came true ... .
Lee Anderson, the hot-tempered Reform MP, has spent the week being the butt of Left-wing online ridicule. Yes, even more than usual. And it’s all because he made one of the biggest mistakes you can ever make on social media. In short ... Stiff upper lip ... .
Enjoy!. Anora. PhotoCredit. NEON...It's only after the parents of her client-turned-husband take everything and leave her right back where she started that we see Anora's stiff upper lip go limp in an end shot that I'm still thinking about ... Nightbitch ... .
