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  • 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 in remaining...
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    The lips are a horizontal pair of soft appendages attached to the jaws and are the most visible part of the mouth of many animals, including humans. Vertebrate...
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    the decorative theme for a range of products. Evocative of the Victorian belief in British stoicism – the "stiff upper lip", self-discipline, fortitude...
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    more—you'll be a Man, my son! As an evocation of Victorian-era stoicism, the "stiff upper lip" self-discipline that popular culture rendered into a British national...
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  • Spode identifies a different pearl necklace, one belonging to the Liverpudlian socialite Mrs. Trotter, as fake. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, which takes...
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  • Code of the Woosters. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, he wears a striking dressing-grown. As Bertie states regarding Bassett, "He was a small man ... you got...
    54 KB (7,036 words) - 22:27, 25 February 2024
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    catalogue – except Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip – was remastered and reissued. Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip were reissued in the UK in 2004. Later...
    179 KB (16,193 words) - 10:28, 18 November 2024
  • Brendan O'Brien. It marked the band's first original recordings since Stiff Upper Lip (2000), with the eight-year gap being the longest between AC/DC's successive...
    107 KB (8,966 words) - 17:03, 22 November 2024
  • of a man courting her goddaughter Phyllis Mills. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, she tells Bertie about how Sir Watkyn Bassett bragged about obtaining a black...
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  • "Meltdown", by AC/DC from Stiff Upper Lip, 2000 "Meltdown!", by the Aquabats from Charge!!, 2005 "...Meltdown", by Enter Shikari from A Flash Flood of Colour...
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    cutting edge. A greater lip angle will cause the bit to cut more aggressively under the same amount of point pressure as a bit with a smaller lip angle. Both...
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  • home. She finds rejection everywhere and is always ordered to keep a stiff upper lip whenever she feels like crying. Finally, Nessie loses all hope and...
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    with Gypie Mayo) 1978: Lene Lovich - Stateless (Stiff) - track 6, "Tonight" 1978: Leo Kottke - Burnt Lips (Chrysalis) - track 1, "Endless Sleep" 1978: The...
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  • the idiot you must be to ask such a question. It is like Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, like Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, like A Damsel in Distress, and...
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    Angus Young (category Scottish emigrants to Australia)
    Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip, which confirmed their renewed popularity and success. After a lengthy eight-year hiatus, AC/DC returned with a new studio...
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    vote to leave the European Union. In 2003 he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip -...
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  • second husband, Neville, in a car crash. Laurence Rodenhurst (Paul Chapman) – An emotionally repressed, 'stiff upper lip' middle class dentist, Laurence...
    19 KB (1,654 words) - 18:31, 9 November 2024
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    Hodag, a creature of the Wisconsin swamps possessing horns and spines. Hugag, an animal similar to a moose, with stiff, jointless legs, and a large upper...
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  • as a matter of time.[citation needed] Political quietism in Islam Stiff upper lip "Ṣabr", Encyclopaedia of Islam "Shukr", Encyclopaedia of Islam. Hans...
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    Brian Johnson's solo album Strange Man on the MCA label. The U.S. 1989 CD Keep On Rocking, with re-recorded versions of the band's twelve known songs, was...
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