upper story 的定义
- The head or brain, as in He's not all there in the upper story. This expression transfers the literal sense of a higher floor in a multistory building to the top portion of the human body. Richard Bentley used it in A Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris, where he compares a man with “brains ... in his head” to a man who has “furniture in his upper story.”
upper story 近义词
等同于 brain
upper story 的近义词 9 个
upper story 的反义词 6 个
等同于 gray matter
等同于 noodle
等同于 head
更多upper story例句
- The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
- But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
- Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’
- In its attempt to discredit the story, the JPO inadvertently confirmed that fact.
- And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
- “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
- On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
- It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
- Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
- The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.