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upper story
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 (1699), where he compares a man with "brains ... in his head" to a man who has "furniture in his upper story."
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Maynerd | | MAY-nərd | English (Rare) |
Sue | | [su:] | |
Tommy | | TAHM-ee | English |
Jitendra | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati |
Katariina | | KAH-tah-ree:-nah (Finnish) | Finnish, Estonian |
Kym | | KIM | English (Rare) |