An abnormal condition variously characterized by stupor, stereotypy, mania, and either rigidity or extreme flexibility of the limbs.It is most often associated with schizophrenia.
When we cry, our top lip starts to wobble and so this gave rise to the idiom a stiff upper lip, meaning to not show your feelings when you are upset, even though it is difficult not to.
Boys are held to absurd, rigid norms of masculinity --told to renounce the feminine emotionality of sadness or fear and to embrace aggression and anger as markers of real manhood.
The stunningly personal statement-issued by the woman with the world's stiffest upper lip- was just the latest breathtaking development in a crisis unlike any other the royal family has encountered in modern history.
And while parrots' beaks are rigid, they have very flexible jaw joints, giving them a lot of control over how wide and how quickly they open their beaks.
The Chimney Sweeper taught the Shepherdess how to walk with her china legs and they used a ladder to step down on the ground and looked up to the old cupboard.
And then we've got the problems on the blood vessel end, under sustained hypertension, you may see your otherwise elastic arteries go from being flexible balloons to stiff, hardened pipes, in what's called arteriosclerosis.