Usually means: Emotional restraint amid difficulty, adversity.
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  1. stiff upper lip: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stiff-upper-lip, stiff upper lip: Merriam-Webster
  3. stiff upper lip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stiff upper lip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stiff upper lip: Vocabulary.com
  6. stiff upper lip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stiff upper lip: Wiktionary
  8. stiff upper lip: Dictionary.com
  9. Stiff Upper Lip (Gershwin song), Stiff Upper Lip (album), Stiff Upper Lip (song), Stiff Upper Lip, Stiff upper lip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. stiff upper lip: Rhymezone
  11. stiff upper lip: FreeDictionary.org
  12. stiff upper lip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. stiff upper lip: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Stiff upper lip: World Wide Words

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  1. Stiff upper lip, stiff upper lip: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stiff-upper-lip as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stiff upper lip)

noun:  (idiomatic) The quality of being resolute and showing self-restraint, stereotypically associated with the British; especially as keep a stiff upper lip.

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