Stiff upper lip
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For the album by AC/DC, see Stiff Upper Lip.
One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises 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 a supposed attribute of British people, who were (and sometimes still are) perceived by many as being reserved; the idiom is however of American origin. [1] Author P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, 1963, (ISBN 0-7432-0360-7), parodies this British trait, and the Eric Idle song, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," is often seen as a humorous but genuine celebration of it.
