- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
keep a stiff upper lip This American expression (often thought to be British) was current during the war. It could be employed on the battlefield to urge a man not to panic and used in camp to persuade a mess mate to be unmoved by a sweetheart's fickleness. From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 167