英语词汇stiff upper lip的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

stiff upper lip. Since it is the lower lip that quivers when someone is afraid or on the verge of crying, keeping a stiff up- per lip seems to be a rather meaningless expression. Probably there is no logic behind this admonition to be firm in times of trouble, but at least one attempt has been made at an explana- tion. Young British officers who adopted mustaches tried to keep them trim so that they didn’t make their upper lips twitch, such twitching being a sign of lack of control and emotional immaturity to their superiors. The main problem here is that all recorded evidence shows this phrase to be of American ori- gin, from New England in about 1830. Possibly it is just the re- verse of the American expression “down in the mouth.”

词汇	stiff upper lip
词源	stiff upper lip. Since it is the lower lip that quivers when someone is afraid or on the verge of crying, keeping a stiff up- per lip seems to be a rather meaningless expression. Probably there is no logic behind this admonition to be firm in times of trouble, but at least one attempt has been made at an explana- tion. Young British officers who adopted mustaches tried to keep them trim so that they didn’t make their upper lips twitch, such twitching being a sign of lack of control and emotional immaturity to their superiors. The main problem here is that all recorded evidence shows this phrase to be of American ori- gin, from New England in about 1830. Possibly it is just the re- verse of the American expression “down in the mouth.”
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