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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.”
Example Sentences
Melt Greenland’s ice sheet and only Mar-a-Lago’s upper story and tower protrude above the waves.
Standing outside the city hospital, Karim El Baridi said his uncle was being treated for broken ribs after leaping out of an upper story for fear his building would collapse.
Shortly after midnight, a motorcyclist passing by noticed smoke coming from an upper story and alerted guards.
After the dam breach, the family piled into a boat to get to safety in the upper story of a neighbor’s three-story home.
Because the ground story has already been weakened by a missing wall — where the garage door sits — and is top-heavy because it’s overlaid by an upper story, this type of house is called a soft-story home.
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