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When you want to look solemn, stoic, determined and resolute and so on you maintain a stiff upper lip.
If you say someone's ideas are left field, you mean to say their ideas are unconventional, odd and surprising.
To punch the air, one simulates such a punch without touching anyone but the body motion is the same.
If some person sticks out like a sore thumb, the person is odd and different, commanding particular attention because he/she is excessive in some way or other.
One who is happy-go-lucky is easy going and carefree, not giving a care about the future.
If you play "fast and loose" with facts, it means you are not reliable with facts.
When people ask you to get a grip on reality, they are talking about assessing a complex social or political issue.
The other proverbial shoe becomes synonymous with something that is inevitable to happen.
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