enfrentar as adversidades da vida keep a stiff upper lip

Creator:	Marcelo Gonçalves
Language pair:	Portuguese to English
Discipline:	-
Definition / notes:	...Remain resolute and unemotional in the face of adversity, or even tragedy. Origin This is such a clichéd expression that it is difficult to imagine doing anything else with a stiff upper lip apart from keeping it. It is similar to 'keep a straight face', 'keep you chin up', and (to the amusement of many Americans) 'keep you pecker up'. The phrase has become symbolic of the British, and particularly of the products of the English public school system during the age of the British Empire. In those schools the 'play up and play the game' ethos was inculcated into the boys who went on to rule the Empire. That 'do your duty and show no emotion' feeling was expressed in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade:
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