But, if the governing class goes about business as usual, that's not a stiff upper lip but a death wish. |
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I should keep a stiff upper lip and take the high road and all that, so I will. |
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Melasma is a skin condition in which brown patches occur primarily on the cheekbones, forehead and upper lip. |
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Keeping a stiff upper lip during such tribulations, she writes, is what one must do. |
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He kept his voice neutral, but the left side of his upper lip curled slightly in disapproval. |
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Some women also develop more hair on their chin, upper lip, cheeks, arms and legs during pregnancy. |
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The upper lip, consisting of two fused petals, covers the pistils and stamens like a hood. |
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He had these amazing long brows, as dark as his hooded eyes, and a small, perfectly groomed moustache perched on top of his upper lip. |
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A look of disgust that had never been known to grace Michael's face settled heavily over his features, his upper lip curling as he surveyed her. |
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Her upper lip curled slightly in a faint scowl as she gathered the parchment up in her hand and broke the serpent seal with her fingernail. |
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An exaggerated fraenum in the centre of the inside upper lip may cause an unsightly central gap between the upper incisors. |
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Now is the time for the British to rediscover the Dunkirk spirit, the stiff upper lip. |
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The only indication was the slight quiver of his upper lip as his eyes bore into James. |
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The infant's upper lip and much of his face was terribly distorted, but he looked normal following surgery. |
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A tiny jut of skin hangs off her upper lip, as happens to mortals in the winter. |
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We were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it were a bar of chocolate. |
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He placed his faith in a stiff upper lip, and the grassroots who loved him were old fogeys. |
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I saw my mother's upper lip twitching, generally signaling that she was going to break down any second. |
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During the early stages of pregnancy, the upper lip and palate develop from tissues lying on either side of the tongue. |
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On its face, the upper lip, mandible, and tip of the muzzle are silvery white to yellowish. |
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They also have large vibrissae, stiff whisker-like hairs above the upper lip and at the corners of the mouth. |
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A cleft lip is a condition that creates an opening in the upper lip between the mouth and nose. |
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The glasses were a new addition since she had seen him last, as was the five o'clock shadow on his chin and upper lip. |
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Ben sports a film of cold sweat that never leaves his upper lip, matching the one glistening on my forehead. |
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Theres nothing like a good strong growth of hair on the upper lip to suggest powerful manliness. |
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Rolando brushed the back of his hand across his upper lip where the scar disfigured his face. |
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I interlaced my fingers and lifted them up to my lips so that the tips of the forefingers were touching my upper lip. |
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Seems he's learned to hold back the tears and keep a stiff upper lip when political operatives spread scurrilous lies and outright falsehoods. |
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She sketched the lines of his cheekbones and carefully shaded in the delicate curve of his upper lip. |
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I turned to her, slightly entertained at the annoyance curling her upper lip. |
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If the hair is fairly fine and downy, either on the upper lip or the cheeks, then bleaching is by far the best solution. |
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I could feel gauzy bandages wrapped around my forehead, and I could feel the plastic tubing taped to my upper lip to help me breathe. |
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An old man wearing glasses that drooped down to his nose with grey hair and a thin grey mustache above his upper lip stood before us with a grin. |
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He can make out the attempts at a mustache on his upper lip, but his hair is too fine and matches his pink skin too well to show. |
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She was taken to Basildon Hospital with slashes to her eye and deep cuts to her upper lip. |
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Imagine a thin moody moustache is slithering across my upper lip rather than the manly unkemptness that I call my beard. |
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When Sean was safely out of earshot, he allowed his upper lip to curl into the slightest sneer. |
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A cleft lip can range from a simple notch in the upper lip to a complete gap in the lip running into the floor of the nostril. |
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When it curled its upper lip in a snarl, long fangs peeked out between its other straight teeth. |
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The teenager has a half-inch vertical scar above her upper lip and speaks with a local accent. |
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In one scene, the heroic spacewoman's stiff upper lip speech is a little more dramatic than the one in the subtitles. |
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The black rhino is known for its aggressiveness and its nimble upper lip, which it uses to grasp and browse on shrubs. |
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The victim suffered severe cuts to the upper lip, lower lip, the chin and into his neck. |
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It's quite a contrast from the stiff upper lip, starchy world of wool huntcoats that I've grown up with. |
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It stood in front of me and it curled its upper lip, exposing one canine and incisor. |
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Upper-class Englishmen pride themselves on discretion and a stiff upper lip, deeply unfashionable human qualities in these tabloid times. |
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Most of the women were crying, but I kept a stiff upper lip. |
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If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings. |
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I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger. |
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Shane's upper lip curled up and she emitted a scoff of disgust. |
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Unfortunately, after uttering that word, most roll their eyes or curl their upper lip in mild disgust and just plain lose interest in the conversation. |
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Sweat had appeared on her upper lip, above her bright red lipstick line. |
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I don't know who decided, at whatever stage, that being buttoned up and possessed of a stiff upper lip was a bad thing and that Englishmen had better loosen up. |
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Any infection in this area, as from a pimple or boil in the nostril or on the upper lip or nose, may cause a local tissue inflammation known as cellulitis. |
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A cleft lip is a long opening between the upper lip and the nose. |
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The philtrum, on the upper lip, is bounded by ridges that run from under each nostril marking the fusion of the premaxilla and the lateral maxillary processes. |
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He is seen in the film apologising in his plummy tones to the man and, ironically, it is this stiff upper lip that sees him through some sticky patches. |
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The old man was staring at him, upper lip curled back from his teeth. |
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He scowled, his upper lip curling so slightly that his lips did not part. |
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I rolled my eyes and curled my upper lip in feigned revulsion. |
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There's no way of supping a full latte without getting a foamy moustache on your upper lip and it looks as daft on a power person as it does on an old grey man. |
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The Octopus orchid, encyclia cochleata, produces flowers the wrong way round, so the tentacle-like green tepals hang below the dark upper lip. |
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Fortunately, the man in the passenger seat had the stiff upper lip bit off to a tee. |
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I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip. |
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A man may go pretty near through his whole sea-life without any call to show a stiff upper lip. |
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This bladder hangs between the eyes and down over the upper lip in the deflated state. |
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If his goal was to lose his stiff upper lip, he has done some of that. |
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Like newly appointed Matron, who wants shiny bedpans, beds as starchy as she is, but most of all to stop her stiff upper lip trembling. |
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It seemed to me that Mr. St. John's under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment. |
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In typical British stiff upper lip fashion, the tournament organizers expected us to play into, and through, the menacing weather. |
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Visual differences between sheep and goats include the beard of goats and divided upper lip of sheep. |
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It wasn't Bo's girlfriend behind the wheel, unless she had what looked like a '70s pornstache attached to her upper lip. |
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Then his upper lip may be seen to be raised, especially at the corners, so that his huge canine teeth are exhibited. |
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The front spine is modified into a slender growth on the upper lip known as an illicium, which is tipped by a fleshy lump, the esca. |
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Two black bands pass along the head, starting from the upper lip and passing upwards to the whole base of the ears. |
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At least one in 700 children is born with a cleft lip, an orofacial defect that affects the child's upper lip. |
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The animal grazes, has a big upper lip and some mythical attributes. |
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Baby Hamish arrived with a thin upper lip and flattened philtrum, the area between the nose and mouth commonly affected by foetal alcohol syndrome. |
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