Anyhow, when you want to look solemn, stoic, determined and resolute and so on you maintain a stiff upper lip. In other words, your upper lip is unmoving. This way you’re not showing your inner emotions, even in face of major adversity or setback, defeat, tragedy, etc., even if you want to cry.
Let’s get a concrete idea from via more examples, all involving the British, from the media:
1. These are tough times for the pride of British manhood.
France’s new female prime minister thinks men on this side of the Channel are not interested in women. Indeed, she has even suggested that one in four may be gay.
This has touched a sensitive nerve in a country whose men endured for years the image-sapping success of one of the London stage’s longest-running farces – “No Sex, Please, We’re British.”
If all this were not enough to make the Englishman’s stiff upper lip quiver, the current British edition of Esquire magazine reports that Englishwomen regard their partners’ romantic “repertoire” as “hopeless.”
In Paris, Prime Minister Edith Cresson put the problem thus: “It’s a question of education, and I consider it something of a weakness.”
Her disdainful view of the Englishman’s warmth -- she passed similarly harsh judgments on American and German men -- was expressed in an interview four years ago, long before her appointment as prime minister, but only now published, to her embarrassment. “The English are not interested in women. It is astonishing. I remember strolling about in London and men in the streets don’t look at you. In Paris, the men look at you all the time,” she said, adding the suspicion that one in four Englishmen might be gay.
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