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Idioms and Phrases
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.”Discover More
Example Sentences
She partly opened the wooden shutter again and pointed to an upper story of the opposite building.
And the roof was not necessary, for the floors of the upper story served instead.
The greater part of the upper story does not date further back than the fifteenth century.
Mary slept that night in the same chamber as Morgiana, an airy, high-vaulted room, in an upper story of the palace.
There are paved roads, large quadrangular porticos, both on a level with the ground and with an upper story.
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